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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 39823@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39823: 26.3; update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:48:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rpr6w2o.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgib3d6v.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:03:36 -0400")

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> I have nothing against lexcal scoping (all to the contrary), and
> always found it strange that I had to dynamically bound values
> variable calling `update-directory-autoloads'.  Perhaps a simple fix
> would be to allow passing the values it needs as arguments (while
> maintaining backward compatibility, i.e., make those arguments
> optional?).

Hmm, I guess we could add a &key style arg (I don't think plain
&optional would be possible in a backward compatible way because the
current arg list is &rest DIRS; there wouldn't be any way to distinguish
the optional directory argument).





  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-17 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-28 15:11 bug#39823: 26.3; update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27 Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-13  0:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-13  8:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-14  2:06     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-13 23:01   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-14  2:03   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-17 11:48     ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2020-03-14  3:34   ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-17  2:16     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-19  1:46       ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-08  3:55         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-08  6:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-08 16:41             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-08 19:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19  3:13                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-19 12:19                   ` Noam Postavsky
2020-06-22  4:10                     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-22 15:07                       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-06-23 20:42                         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-30 15:23                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 17:20                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-01 17:54                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 18:06                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02  2:36                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-02 17:54                                 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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