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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer local alias?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:39:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9ey5p50.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m1iotmxub5.fsf@poto.myhome.westell.com

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Aloha all,
>
> My evolving reproducible research documents make use of Dan Davison's
> idea recently re-introduced by Seb Vauban:
>
>   * Local variables                                                  :noexport:
>
>   # Local Variables:
>   # eval: (org-sbe "setup-common-lisp")
>   # End:
>
> Here, the source code block named `setup-common-lisp' is defined
> elsewhere in the file.
>
> The problem from the point of view of reproducible research is that
> org-sbe used to be named sbe, so for the research to be reproducible
> across that recent change I need to be able to configure things so the
> command that happens to be on the user's computer is used.
>
> I read about defalias and saw that this should be used at the
> point that the original definition is made, so I followed the pointer to
> fset and naively tried this in the local variables:
>
> # eval: (and (boundp 'org-sbe) (not (boundp 'sbe)) (fset 'sbe 'org-sbe))
> # eval: (sbe "setup-common-lisp)
>
> But this gets me the following error:
>
>   File local-variables error: (void-function sbe)
>
> Can someone offer a suggestion?
>

Use fboundp, instead of boundp: the latter checks the variable binding
slot, whereas the former checks the function binding slot.

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14 19:00 Buffer local alias? Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-14 19:39 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-01-14 19:44   ` Bastien
2014-01-14 20:12     ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-14 21:49       ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-15  0:05         ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-15  8:41           ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-15  8:51           ` Eric S Fraga
2014-01-15  9:33         ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-01-15  9:50           ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-15 19:59         ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-15 20:40           ` Andreas Leha
2014-01-16 16:44             ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-16 16:54               ` Rick Frankel
2014-01-16 17:51               ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-01-15  9:30   ` Sebastien Vauban

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