From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: scheme.el bug & fix
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:33:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302181533.h1IFXTw11431@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200302180030.SAA19726@eel.dms.auburn.edu
> Yes, but the point is that, in its current form, with-syntax-table
> uses a newly created (copied) syntax-table. It is very customary to
> create a new syntax-table by first copying an old one and then making
> a few changes. The current version of with-syntax-table (and its
> documentation string) clearly seems to allow (in fact, nearly
> encourage) such use. One could argue that this may have been a
> mistake, but it is still the current behavior.
Note that with-syntax-table was introduced in Emacs-21, so it's
rarely used in external packages (most packages try to maintain
compatibility with Emacs-20, and most package writers learn
new macros rather slowly).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-18 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3E26DA700109A72E@mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr>
2003-02-16 23:53 ` scheme.el bug & fix Stefan Monnier
2003-02-17 1:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-17 10:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-17 9:34 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-17 20:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-17 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-18 0:30 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-18 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-02-19 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-19 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-19 15:11 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-20 18:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-20 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-14 1:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
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