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Written by رہگزر on 2025-01-26 at 09:21

[#]Emacs people: why does reftex does this dance with reftex-docstruct-symbol? Why use a local variable to hold the name of the symbol which has the actual data, when you can just put the data itself in the local variable?

My guess is that it probably has to do with sharing the data for multi-file documents but it feels very awkward. Using buffer-local-value on the master file seems more transparent.

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Written by Alex Schroeder on 2025-01-26 at 10:06

@rahguzar It looks like the font-lock variables holding the face symbols and those then having the necessary values. To me, that shows the age of the code: it was easier to customize such variable assignments; to take advantage of local buffer values of these variables. This all precedes the addition of the entire customization code, I think.

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