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From: markl@PTT.LCS.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Re: Buffer Local Variables
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Date: 5 Feb 88 13:45:29 GMT
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   From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
   Date: 29 Jan 88 17:25:07 GMT
   Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
   Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA


   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?

The problem is probably kill-all-local-variables, a LISP function that
resets all buffer-local variables to their default values.  I believe
it is called by most mode-setup functions.

   -MikeP

markl

Internet: markl@ptt.lcs.mit.edu

Mark L. Lambert
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distributed Systems Group

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