From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] url-cookie-write-file saves versioned backups Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87irkdrb06.fsf@x3y2z1.net> <877j0sz9es.fsf@x3y2z1.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156872469 15299 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 17:27:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 19:27:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GI7Ip-0001IU-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:23:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GI7Io-0001dA-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:23:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GI7Ef-0005La-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GI7Ee-0005Jn-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GI7Ee-0005JY-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GI7Nr-0003st-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GI7Ec-000152-Ri; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:18:46 -0400 Original-To: Diane Murray In-reply-to: <877j0sz9es.fsf@x3y2z1.net> (message from Diane Murray on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:13:15 +0200) 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:59071 Archived-At: I don't know why the original changes were made to disable version control for the cookies file, but I assume that if it is to be done, `version-control' as `set' locally in the buffer is supposed to have the same value as the one inserted into the Local Variables section of the file. Right now the former is set to t and the latter is set to never. It does seem like a bug to specify two different values for the same variable in two different ways. So we should change something. The question that remains is what value to use. Who put in the two specifications for these two values, and what were their motives, and who else saw those reasons and agreed with them or opposed them.