From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scheme.el bug & fix Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:31:40 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200302191431.h1JEVee17004@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <3E26DA700109A72E@mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr> (added by postmaster@wanadoo.fr) <200302162353.h1GNrkG24335@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200302170105.TAA17107@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302171439.h1HEdH926957@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200302180030.SAA19726@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302181533.h1IFXTw11431@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045665269 32531 80.91.224.249 (19 Feb 2003 14:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18lVIl-0008S4-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:34:23 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18lVVp-0003ja-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:47:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lVHd-0003ZA-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:33:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lVGl-00035K-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:32:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lVGC-0002ru-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:31:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lVGA-0002ox-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:31:42 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1JEVee17004; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:31:40 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Original-cc: David.Ponce@wanadoo.fr Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11763 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11763 > 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