Dear Martin Mächler,
System: Slackware Linux (version 14.0)
CPUs: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @1.60GHz
GNU Emacs 24.2.1
> Your emacs version 24.2 (2012) is relatively old.
> The oldest version I have had access relatively quickly, is 24.3
> and if I type
>C-h f defvar-local
> there, I get
> ESS project,
> One of the developers asked that I forward this.
>
> I send the output of running 'make' on ess-16.10.
>
> Sincerely,
> Eric Lindblad
> http://www.nurmi-labs.blogspot.com
>
>
> System: Slackware Linux (version 14.0)
> CPUs: Intel(R)