Timeline for How can I get the effect of buffer-local symbol plist property values?
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| Apr 6, 2020 at 8:30 | comment | added | Lassi | I am humbled by the level of elisp wizardry elicited by this question. Your discussion makes for very interesting reading. Thank you for having it. | |
| Apr 6, 2020 at 8:28 | vote | accept | Lassi | ||
| Apr 5, 2020 at 11:00 | comment | added | Basil | I was thinking of the latter :) You're right that uninterned symbols would be simpler and more idiomatic, but each of those symbols would have to be stored somewhere (which could be consolidated in a new obarray), and the question is about something inherently non-idiomatic. | |
| Apr 5, 2020 at 10:43 | comment | added | phils |
If you mean making C-h v obarray itself buffer-local, I can imagine that doing the trick, but at the same time being a catastrophically bad idea :) An interesting idea, though. If you just mean passing the obarray argument to intern, that's clearly safer, but likely requires more of the code to be aware of the requirement, and in practice I would think that using uninterned symbols would be a better option in those cases.
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| Apr 5, 2020 at 9:20 | comment | added | Basil | One way to emulate buffer-local symbols is by interning them in a new obarray that is stored buffer-locally. | |
| Apr 5, 2020 at 8:23 | history | edited | phils | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2020 at 8:07 | history | answered | phils | CC BY-SA 4.0 |