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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Why may some Org regexps be risky when set as buffer-local variables?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:46:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqfdmdm4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)


Hi List, 

there are dozens of regexps that are set as buffer-local variables when
org-mode is turned on as major-mode, but other regexps are defined and
set only once as global variables when e.g. org.el is loaded, and the
docstring of these variables often reads like this:

,---------------------------------------------------------------
| org-block-regexp is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is [...]
| 
|   This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
| 
| Documentation:
| Regular expression for hiding blocks.
`---------------------------------------------------------------


Why are these variables considered risky when used as a file-local
variables? Was this "risk" the prime reason to make them global - or are
they global simply because there was no special reason to make them
buffer-local? 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

next             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-29 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-29 11:46 Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2014-03-29 13:04 ` Why may some Org regexps be risky when set as buffer-local variables? Nick Dokos
2014-03-29 13:54   ` Thorsten Jolitz

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