Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com> writes:

> Observation: Variables controlled by #+STARTUP are ‘defcustom’, so
> they will interfere: for example, the beamer startup option may appear
> when working on the lecture file or may be suppressed in the
> presentations depending on how I load the org-files.
>
> Question: why are the variables controlled by #+STARTUP not ‘defvar-local’ ?

When options are set via #+STARTUP keyword, they automatically become
buffer-local. See `org-set-regexps-and-options'.

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