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Please consider making left-margin-width etc buffer local instead of major mode local

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6915: Please consider making left-margin-width etc buffer local instead of major mode local
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 15:55:00 +0200

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I just got a bug report for nXhtml
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/nxhtml/+bug/619587) that seems to be
> caused by that left-margin-width is major mode local. I can protect
> this from getting changed in mumamo.el, but I wonder whether this
> variable and some other variables at the same place in buffer.c should
> be made buffer local instead of major mode local. (I.e. I wonder
> whether they should be have the property permanent-local set to t.)

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Changing these variables to permanently buffer-local would break
people's set-ups, so it's not feasible to do that at this point.  (It
would have to have been done when the variables were introduced.)

So I'm closing this bug report.

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