From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
Cc: 36157@debbugs.gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#36157: 27.0.50; ediff-files does not work after lexical-binding was enabled for ediff
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:35:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1hcL0r-0001dZ-G6@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r27wqaie.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alex Branham on Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:36:57 -0500)
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> I'm not 100% sure what you're asking here, but ediff uses variables to
> store information and then passes those to functions. So in one function
> it'll do something like this:
> (setq file-A "/path/to/foo.el")
> (setq buff-A (get-buffer-create "foo.el"))
> (ediff-find-file file-A buff-A)
It should add prefixes to those variable names, to avoid conflict.
Then it could defvar those variables to make them always-dynamic.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-10 3:11 bug#36157: 27.0.50; ediff-files does not work after lexical-binding was enabled for ediff Kaushal Modi
2019-06-10 3:21 ` Kaushal Modi
2019-06-10 13:41 ` Alex Branham
2019-06-10 13:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2019-06-10 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 23:05 ` Glenn Morris
2019-06-11 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2019-06-14 18:36 ` Alex Branham
2019-06-16 2:35 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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