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From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Buffer vs. Window specific variables
Message-ID: <2591@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 01:28:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 01:28:55 1986
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References: <2578@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
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Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <2578@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> liberte@b.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>Is there a good reason to have the following variables buffer-local
>as opposed to window-local?  Maybe we need a window-local list too.
>
>	tab-width

Tab-width is generally an attribute of the text in a buffer, rather than
being specific to a particular display of the buffer.  For example, if a
buffer contains a file that was written on a system with a different
tab width you would set the tab-width of that buffer to be that of the
other system.
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    Barry Margolin
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