From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mode-line-format - local variableness Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:37:20 +0900 Message-ID: <878wmdihv3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <004901c9b63c$77c768e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <004f01c9b666$90775970$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239053899 29584 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2009 21:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:38:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 23:39:38 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 1LqwXT-0007Ot-Pe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:39:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqwW5-0004g9-H9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:38:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqwVg-0004Op-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqwVb-0004Ln-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52214 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqwVb-0004Lf-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41064 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LqwVb-0004i3-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LqwVY-0004BS-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:37:32 +0000 Original-Received: from 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.175.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:37:32 +0000 Original-Received: from miles by 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:37:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:FQNduZqYcpgBHWO9S4eyrxT0hEI= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:110101 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > There are reasonable choices for these questions, but no matter what you > choose, you will sooner or later find a situation where it doesn't > actually do what was intended, and furthermore, the implementation tends > to be painful and costly, which is a bummer since it's supposed to be > a *very* rare case that's fairly easy to avoid, yet you'll end up paying > for it all the time. ... and any guarantees we make now may come back to haunt us if we want to change the way the internal mechanisms work later. -Miles -- Accord, n. Harmony.