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Re: Propagating local variables?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Propagating local variables?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 15:12:11 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> `with-temp-buffer' can currently assume that buffer-local variables are
> take from their global defaults and not from the "parent" buffer.  This
> needs to stay that way.  So probably such an inheritance facility should be
> opt-in and not affect existing code.

For that same reason I'd recommend we don't try and tweak the way
variables work, but instead build something else (maybe using
buffer-local variables internally).


        Stefan




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