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: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:17:08 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E26DA700109A72E@mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr> (added by postmaster@wanadoo.fr) <200302162353.h1GNrkG24335@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200302170105.TAA17107@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200302171439.h1HEdH926957@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200302181533.h1IFXTw11431@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045639212 29979 80.91.224.249 (19 Feb 2003 07:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:20:12 +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 18lOWT-0007n0-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18lOjO-00087q-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:33:26 +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 18lOVx-0003Ly-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lOVg-0003IZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lOTj-00024i-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:17:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lOTe-0001zb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18lOTc-00040S-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 02:17:08 -0500 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-reply-to: <200302181533.h1IFXTw11431@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) 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:11754 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11754 Note that with-syntax-table was introduced in Emacs-21, so it's rarely used in external packages (most packages try to maintain compatibility with Emacs-20, and most package writers learn new macros rather slowly). Gerd said there may have been an XEmacs compatibility issue. Perhaps people have written code for XEmacs which assumes with-syntax-table copies the syntax table. But I suspect that the amount of such code is small, and that this change is ok.