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bug#49971: 28.0.50; indent-tabs-mode not working globally
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
bug#49971: 28.0.50; indent-tabs-mode not working globally |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:08:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Aug 10 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Gabriel <gabriel376@hotmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:33:37 -0300
>>
>> >> 1. emacs -Q
>> >> 2. C-h v 'indent-tabs-mode' (value is t)
>> >> 3. eval '(indent-tabs-mode -1)'
>> >> 4. C-h v 'indent-tabs-mode' (local value is nil; global value is t)
>> >
>> > Where did you see that it's "defined as global"?
>>
>> On simple.el:
>>
>> (define-minor-mode indent-tabs-mode
>> "Toggle whether indentation can insert TAB characters."
>> :global t :group 'indent :variable indent-tabs-mode)
>
> That's the mode, but in your recipe you are looking at the variable,
> not the mode. And the documentation of the variable clearly says:
>
> Automatically becomes buffer-local when set.
That's because it's explicitly made that way (bindings.el:799) despite
the :global declaration (which is about the _variable_ not the mode).
Andreas.
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