Re: Docs on lexical binding cookie?

Stephen Berman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:08:53 +0200 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 10:02:37AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > From: Ryan Tate <[email protected]>
>> > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:47:37 -0400
>> > 
>> > Can someone direct me to the documentation that explains what a lexical
>> > binding cookie is. I have run many searches and cannot find it . Thanks.
>> 
>> How did you search?  In the ELisp manual loaded into an Info buffer, I
>> type "i lexical-binding RET", and land in the node "Selecting Lisp
>> Dialect", which documents the cookie.  Is that what you were looking
>> for?
>
> I think the term "cookie" was the difficult part.
>
> (And yes, "cookie" /is/ in the index, but only for autoload and webkit).

Also in (info "(elisp) Antinews"):

   • The annoying warning about the missing ‘lexical-binding’ cookie
     when loading Lisp files was removed.

Steve Berman
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