From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Two binding features
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:43:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86fxsurovs.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JtnXp-0001Pk-9t@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Wed, 07 May 2008 13:35:09 -0400")
Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Two primitive features that would be useful for mumamo
> (and perhaps othere programs) are:
>
> * A primitive that would let-bind variables from an alist.
> I think Common Lisp has such a construct; is that correct?
> I do not recall its name, though.
>
> * A way to temporarily turn off all buffer-local bindings. This could
> take the form of a variable which you would bind with `let', and when
> it is non-nil, the buffer-local bindings are not visible.
How about making (with-current-buffer nil ...) have that effect (in
case this is not already the case or an error)? Or is that
inconvenient?
> I think any feature to temporarily switch modes, or pretend to do so,
> would find these features useful.
How so?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 17:35 Two binding features Richard M Stallman
2008-05-07 17:43 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-08 22:28 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-07 18:47 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-05-07 22:15 ` Paul R
2008-05-08 22:28 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-09 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-10 8:55 ` Richard M Stallman
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