I see now. I tried using lexical-let*, but now it appears that pulling
the assignment of minibuffer-completion-table into the lexical-let*
breaks the function, while pulling all the other assigments in works
fine. I'm not sure why that happens. I am not a very skilled emacs-lisp
programmer, so I am afraid something funny is happening here that is
beyond my understanding.

charles

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Charles Celerier <cceleri@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
>
>> Can the variables in the varlist depend on the definition of variables
>> that precede them in the list? I believe I tried your suggestion, but
>> quickly gave up as Emacs gave me an error claiming that all-tags was
>> void.
>
> That's the point of lexical-let* vs lexical-let
>
> d