From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does one undo (even temporarily) an defvaralias, giving two distinct variables? Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:36:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20130312155548.GA4276@acm.acm> <87txogo2o0.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20130314143101.GB4296@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363279026 18588 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 16:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 17:37:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UGB9l-0006OD-7c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:37:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGB9O-00026r-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGB9E-0001v3-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGB97-00088r-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:47277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGB97-00088Y-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:36:49 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KL9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMTgUok X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+KL9/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMTgUok X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="4918793" Original-Received: from 206-248-162-253.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.162.253]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 14 Mar 2013 12:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E1A6467A4D; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:36:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20130314143101.GB4296@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:31:01 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157858 Archived-At: > The workaround I've come up with is (defvaralias face (gensym)), which > although it leaves `face' as an alias, at least it points to a different > target. BTW don't count on this workaround too much. If it works, it's purely by accident and might get "fixed" at any time. Stefan