GNU bug report logs - #38317
Buffer-local variables don't work as history for read-from-minibuffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 38317 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#38317: Buffer-local variables don't work as history for read-from-minibuffer
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:54:38 +0100

martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> writes:

>> There doesn't seem to be any way to tell read_minibuf what buffer it
>> should be looking at to get at the buffer-local value?
>
> The one from the buffer of 'minibuffer-selected-window'?

Unconditionally looking at that buffer wouldn't work, I think?  Because
you may genuinely have a buffer-local version of the variable in the
minibuffer?  Or is that unlikely?

I guess that's quite unlikely.

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