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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: Function needed to make all variables buffer-local
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Date: 17 Jul 89 19:16:52 GMT
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Kayvan Sylvan writes:
 > I was thinking about the fact that some packages in Emacs save their state
 > in global variables and thus can't be used more than once in any invocation
 > of Emacs.
 > 
 > One solution would be to have a function that made all the variables in a
 > buffer be local variables.

Yuck.  I'd much rather see the offending packages fixed, even if they
are some of my own.  :-/  How many packages have this malady?