From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming 23.1 release Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:06:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83skgrnpi8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ws63cij1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83vdlnnqhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87ljmjchna.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248116796 17391 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2009 19:06:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:06:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 21:06:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSyBw-0002eq-6j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:06:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSyBv-00066j-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSyBp-00065s-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSyBn-00064r-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42721 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSyBn-00064e-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:33780 helo=mtaout3.012.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSyBm-0005Jo-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KN300300FSFAB00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:06:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.246.110]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KN3006APH27SGK0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:06:08 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87ljmjchna.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112855 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:51:21 -0400 > > The fix proposed by Richard involves changing an undocumented behavior > of buffer-saved-size. Previously, the documentation said that a value > of -1 has a certain behavior, but actully any negative number does the > same thing as -1; this patch changes things to treat -2 specially. We > can't install this without a significant amount of testing to see if > this breaks anything. Can't we have a magically-named buffer-local variable for the same effect in fileio.c? Then previous behavior would be left untouched, and we won't need that much testing, as only Rmail would be affected.