From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dima@secretsauce.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ?
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:54:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k13bawyn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d0936qfi.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:28:49 +0100)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: dima@secretsauce.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:28:49 +0100
>
> >>>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:17:46 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>
> >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:25:28 +0100
> >> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >>
> >> Would providing a defcustom be such a hardship?
>
> Eli> Given that "enlarging the limit is a bad idea", I'm not even sure we
> Eli> should provide a variable. We definitely shouldn't document
> Eli> it.
>
> In that case we shouldnʼt even provide the variable, no?
Possibly. Stefan didn't say why he thought adding a variable was an
improvement, but my guess would be ease of change in the future.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-23 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-10 20:56 Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Dima Kogan
2020-03-10 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-10 23:44 ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-11 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-22 23:08 ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23 8:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 15:28 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-23 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-23 17:03 ` Dima Kogan
2020-03-23 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-24 2:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-12 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-14 5:54 ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-14 7:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-15 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-15 6:41 ` Steve Youngs
2020-03-16 3:36 ` Richard Stallman
2020-03-23 15:56 ` Yuri Khan
2020-03-23 16:55 ` Dima Kogan
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