Hi, I found a strange behavior about buffer-local variables. Could you evaluate the following form in the *scratch* buffer? (let ((buffer-1 (generate-new-buffer "*test-1*")) (buffer-2 (generate-new-buffer "*test-2*"))) (makunbound 'testing-whether-this-variable-is-bound-globally) (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer-1) (make-local-variable 'testing-whether-this-variable-is-bound-globally) (let (testing-whether-this-variable-is-bound-globally) (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer-2) (setq testing-whether-this-variable-is-bound-globally "Howl!") ))) (kill-buffer buffer-1) (kill-buffer buffer-2) testing-whether-this-variable-is-bound-globally) You will see it does not signal the void-variable error but return a string. I am not sure whether it causes a real problem, though. -- Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt;