diff --git a/dotfiles/emacs.d/README.org b/dotfiles/emacs.d/README.org
index f9277091..6d465830 100644
--- a/dotfiles/emacs.d/README.org
+++ b/dotfiles/emacs.d/README.org
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ This makes it so that the file that is produced from tangling this
 file uses lexical scoping.
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
-(setq lexical-binding t)
+(setq-default lexical-binding t)
 #+END_SRC
 ** Setup auto-compile
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp