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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Buffer Local Variables
Message-ID: <8770@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 17:25:07 GMT
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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I've notices a peculiarity with GNU Emacs version 18.40.4 on
BSD.  Say that I define a variable FOO and make that variable
buffer local.  Say I store a value of "BAR" into FOO.  Fine,
it takes and acts like what a well behaved buffer-local-variable
should act like.  However, when I change modes, say from
Emacs-lisp to Fundemental in that buffer... BOOM!  It wipes
out the value of FOO.  It's now set to nil.  

Any way I can overcome this problem so that the variable stays
set even across mode switches?

-MikeP
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