From 4d4d36b1bc12d05523f869c5bb37bf1765eff055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:02:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Fmake_variable_frame_local): Doc fix. --- src/data.c | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/data.c b/src/data.c index 319f8768424..75fa3a89086 100644 --- a/src/data.c +++ b/src/data.c @@ -1709,14 +1709,20 @@ From now on the default value will apply in this buffer. Return VARIABLE. */) DEFUN ("make-variable-frame-local", Fmake_variable_frame_local, Smake_variable_frame_local, 1, 1, "vMake Variable Frame Local: ", doc: /* Enable VARIABLE to have frame-local bindings. -When a frame-local binding exists in the current frame, -it is in effect whenever the current buffer has no buffer-local binding. -A frame-local binding is actually a frame parameter value; -thus, any given frame has a local binding for VARIABLE if it has -a value for the frame parameter named VARIABLE. Return VARIABLE. - -This function does not in itself create any frame-local bindings for -VARIABLE. See `modify-frame-parameters' for how to set frame parameters. */) +This does not create any frame-local bindings for VARIABLE, +it just makes them possible. + +A frame-local binding is actually a frame parameter value. +If a frame F has a value for the frame parameter named VARIABLE, +that also acts as a frame-local binding for VARIABLE in F-- +provided this function has been called to enable VARIABLE +to have frame-local bindings at all. + +The only way to create a frame-local binding for VARIABLE in a frame +is to set the VARIABLE frame parameter of that frame. See +`modify-frame-parameters' for how to set frame parameters. + +Buffer-local bindings take precedence over frame-local bindings. */) (variable) register Lisp_Object variable; { -- 2.11.4.GIT