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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-03-06 14:02:49 -0500
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2010-03-06 14:02:49 -0500
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Improve documentation for setting buffer-local vars (Bug#5688).
* custom.texi (Init Examples): Add xref to Locals. * major.texi (Choosing Modes): Mention usage of setq-default for setting the default value of major-mode (Bug#5688).
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@@ -2256,9 +2256,10 @@ override this).
@end example
This sets the default value, which is effective in all buffers that do
-not have local values for the variable. Setting @code{case-fold-search}
-with @code{setq} affects only the current buffer's local value, which
-is not what you probably want to do in an init file.
+not have local values for the variable (@pxref{Locals}). Setting
+@code{case-fold-search} with @code{setq} affects only the current
+buffer's local value, which is probably not what you want to do in an
+init file.
@item
@vindex user-mail-address