From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Jan Dj\x1fFFFFFFFFFFFFFFrv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; M-x compile gives args out of range 0, 0
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:24:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080409092413.GA2200@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtzicw1d2.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
Morning, Stefan!
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > There's a category of variables which are _essentially_ buffer local,
> > and nobody ever explicitly localises them first - things like
> > major-mode, mark-ring, foo-minor-mode, buffer-undo-list, .....
> It's hard to clearly define which ones are "essentially" buffer local
> and which ones aren't.
I'm not so sure about that. Anything set by a major mode is almost
certainly such a variable. font-lock-keywords, for example. :-) But
this is going towards the philosophical again.
[ .... ]
> So feel free to apply your patch (except for the part that changes the
> docstring, since C-h v will take care of warning the user that the
> variable is automatically made buffer-local).
DONE.
[ .... ]
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-08 10:52 23.0.60; M-x compile gives args out of range 0, 0 Jan Djärv
2008-04-08 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 16:32 ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-08 17:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-08 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 19:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-08 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-09 9:24 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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