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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, 30241@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30241: Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:43:10 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c96b1856-3917-4924-8d0e-b14687cb48ed@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV--H6BZp5SNJ8gheFMCixgGABAX9GTW19ALPurJA+5pOug@mail.gmail.com>

> > For Emacs, we could conceivably have many more generalized
> > vars than we have now.  We might make it possible to use
> > `setf' for functions like these, for instance: `point',
> > `selected-* (*=...), `point-min|max', `current-*', ...
> 
> We do seem have such setf functions for several of those, a lot of
> them require loading cl-lib (historical reasons, I guess).

Yes, and in particular we have `cl-letf' (which is misnamed,
since it does not come from Common Lisp - it should be called
`letf').

I meant only that we could conceivably have more generalized
vars than we have now.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-24 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-24 20:06 bug#30241: Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined Alan Mackenzie
2018-01-24 20:49 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-24 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-24 21:38   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-24 21:43     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-01-26 14:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-26 16:15     ` Drew Adams
2018-01-27 10:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-02 10:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 11:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 21:58         ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-02-10 22:54           ` Drew Adams
2018-02-11 20:43             ` Richard Stallman
2018-02-11 16:00           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 20:51             ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-03-21  6:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <handler.30241.B.15168248834946.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2018-03-21 17:46   ` bug#30241: (Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined.) Alan Mackenzie
     [not found] <<20180124200652.GA4493@ACM>
     [not found] ` <<e3468d0d-4ee5-4173-9a0d-051803a8cf08@default>
     [not found]   ` <<83h8r8ln7u.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]     ` <<41654c7c-2d8d-44ec-a5c4-dd12014b7a9e@default>
     [not found]       ` <<83o9lfk2sy.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-01-27 15:31         ` bug#30241: Emacs 26.0.91: "Generalized variables" are not defined Drew Adams

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