Re: setting of local variable in derived mode

[Chris Wittern]

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> 
> > I expect this to set the tab-width in all buffers with this mode to the
> > value 30.  However, the value stays at 8 as before.
> 
> What makes you think it's set at 8?  What did you do to check that?
> Also: take a look at http://www.pement.org/emacs_tabs.htm

The output of C-h v tab-width tells me that it's value is 8.
And yes, I know what it does and see it correctly if I manually set this to
30.  So somehow the command when invoking the mode is not correctly executed
I assume. 

All the best,

Christian