From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: scheme.el bug & fix Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:37:48 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E26DA700109A72E@mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr> <200302162353.h1GNrkG24335@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5xr8a78b1i.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045514204 910 80.91.224.249 (17 Feb 2003 20:36:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ks0E-0000EA-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:36:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ksEn-0005OA-00 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:51:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ks1z-0003np-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ks1i-0003mo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ks1h-0003mE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:38:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ks1M-0003bX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18ks1M-0004eu-00; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:37:48 -0500 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: <5xr8a78b1i.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Original-cc: David.Ponce@wanadoo.fr Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11712 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11712 Maybe we should make a new macro with-copy-of-syntax-table which does copy the table, and change the original macro not to copy. That macro is not useful enough to be worth adding. If we change with-syntax-table, people who want a copy can write explicit code to do the copy--it is easy enough. In general we don't want to add a function that is a simple combination of existing functions unless it would be used very often.