GNU bug report logs - #9469
buffer-local variables seem to remember previous values

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Le Wang <l26wang <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9469: buffer-local variables seem to remember previous values
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:00:57 +0200

* Stefan Monnier [2011-09-13 12:54] writes:

> I'd be happy to try and make it more clear to people who aren't familiar
> with it (after all, that's the main target audience here), but I'm not
> sure how.

I think a section "Lisp pitfalls" in the manual would be about right for
this.  That could contain examples and explanations like modifying
quoted lists or using #'delete without storing the result with setq and
other such misunderstandings.  Then add references from the description
for quote to the pitfalls section.

Helmut
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