From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Display-local settings (was: It is time for a feature freeze) Date: 16 Apr 2004 16:19:18 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87eks0654s.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <87n06bp4ng.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <8765cwkejr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200404071157.UAA25094@etlken.m17n.org> <200404071312.WAA25268@etlken.m17n.org> <87zn9nqras.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87hdvux5uz.fsf@orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082147089 12367 80.91.224.253 (16 Apr 2004 20:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 16 22:24:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEZt8-0003Ti-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEZt7-0002xh-00 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:24:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEZt2-0005Lp-OG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEZrW-0004mU-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BEZqz-0004WT-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEZo3-0003sy-Dd; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBA621135; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:19:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C7BD58B4C3; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:19:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, requis 5, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21797 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21797 > I don't see how. After all, we are not talking about the > _possibility_ of having a menu-bar or not (that's trivial), but about > the default for creation of new frames. And as far as I can tell, > you can't set different defaults for different displays. But it's like mode-local variables. We don't have those, but we can simulate them with buffer-local variables. So frame-local settings are sufficient as long as we get a chance to dynamically setup those parameters whenever a new frame is created. Stefan