On-line documentation for buffer-locals

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From: Jonas Jaernestroem TG/HK
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:10

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In Emacs 18.57 on a Sun Sparc SLC running 4.1.1 BSD.

When maintaining or using somebodys (for example your own) elisp code,
the on-line documentation strings on defuns and global variables (defvar
& defconst) are a true delight.

However I miss this capability on buffer-local variables, which I say are
at least as important to document as the global ones. In my view, this
makes buffer-local variables less pleasant to use than global variables,
which I guess was not the implementors intention.

In other words, I would like make-local-variable to have an optional
second argument for the document string.

Regards,
Jonas Jaernestroem Ericsson Telecom Sweden. jonas@ericad.ericsson.se

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