Re: lexical-binding is turned on in more use cases

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 19:30:48 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > > We could say that to recover the original behavior, instead of
> 
> > >     --eval "<foo>"
> 
> > > the command could use
> 
> > >     --eval "(eval '<foo>)"
> 
> > And the same for M-:?
> 
> As it happens, this issue bit me this afternoon.  I instrumented a
> function for edebug and tried
> 
>     M-: (c-align-cpp-indent-to-body)
> 
> .  This complained about c-syntactic-context being unbound, so I
> tried:
> 
>    M-: (let ((c-syntactic-context (c-guess-basic-syntax)))
>    (c-align-cpp-indent-to-body))
> 
> , and was puzzled that c-syntactic-context was _still_ unbound.  So I
> checked the spelling, and was more puzzled.  Eventually I used setq,
> which worked, but caused me further problems later on in my Emacs
> session.

Does it help to say

  M-: (eval (c-align-cpp-indent-to-body))

instead?