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: hideshow.el: permanent local variables Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:26:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172824127 6488 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2007 08:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 09:28:41 2007 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 1HN384-0004Uj-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:28:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HN384-00060Q-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HN37N-0005ga-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:27:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HN37M-0005gF-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HN37M-0005g9-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:27:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HN37L-0004l5-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HN35j-0004Gg-NV; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:26:15 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:07:21 -0500) X-detected-kernel: 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:67203 Archived-At: hideshow.el gives several variables the permanent-local property: hs-minor-mode, hs-c-start-regexp, hs-block-start-regexp hs-block-start-mdata-select, hs-block-end-regexp, hs-forward-sexp-func hs-adjust-block-beginning I don't understand why this is desirable; indeed it leads to at least one problem. The reason for giving something a `permanent-local' property is so it will survive a change in major modes. I don't know what's going on hideshow, but is there some reason one might want these settings to survive a change in major mode? (It does seem unlikely.)