Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 44c7b49: In xref-collect-references, force backends to respect the 'dir' arg

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/28/2016 01:15 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:

> > The byte compiler complains that ede-minor-mode is an "unused lexical
> > variable", so I expect there may be a problem with byte-compiled code.
>
> The `let' either binds the existing global variable, or creates a new
> local one; no problems.

IIUC, whether the variable is global or local, is being decided when a 
file is loaded, not at runtime. Thus, if ede.el is loaded after xref.el, 
ede-minor-mode binding there will be a local (lexical) one, and won't 
affect the global variable.