From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: scheme.el bug & fix
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:31:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302191431.h1JEVee17004@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E18lOTc-00040S-00@fencepost.gnu.org
> 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).
>
> Gerd said there may have been an XEmacs compatibility issue.
> Perhaps people have written code for XEmacs which assumes
> with-syntax-table copies the syntax table.
XEmacs indeed does the copying, but its docstring does not document
that behavior.
> But I suspect that the amount of such code is small, and that this
> change is ok.
Indeed, within XEmacs-21.1 (an old version, admittedly), it's only used
in help.el and (in the unbundled XEmacs packages) in semantic.el.
In both cases, it does not need copying.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-19 14:31 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
2003-02-19 7:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-19 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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