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How can I view the history of what variable I've looked up before with describe-variable?
Whenever I call
(describe-variable)
, there is no history of what variables I've recently viewed. Is there a way to enable it to have some kind of history?;)
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How do you avoid pollution of Emacs namespace with "private" variables?
Probably it is misunderstanding of Elisp execution model by I think some variables are only pollute runtime.
For example let's consider read-string argument HISTORY. Probably user don't need to know ...
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How can I create mode-local variables?
I'm looking to create a command which stores a kind of "history" for the current major-mode. I need the variable to be independent for each major mode, but consistent across all buffers in any ...
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Are there any libraries in Emacs or the wider package system for automatically persisting variables
I have a number of variables that store useful state that would be nice to persist across restarts of Emacs. Are there any libraries that allow this to be done simply so I can avoid a bunch of ...
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