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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: with-output-to-temp-buffer and help-mode
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:54:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk36lmue2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fzjfjmj0p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:35:02 -0400")

> In summary, I think this is just plain wrong, and nothing I've heard has
> convinced me otherwise. I count (?) one person in favour and several against.
> So I hope it gets reverted, but I'm not going to pursue it any further.

I agree.  It was tempting, but it breaks too many things.
Better design a new macro with cleaner semantics and mark the other one
as obsolete.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-06 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25  8:15 with-output-to-temp-buffer and help-mode Glenn Morris
2014-07-25  9:06 ` Leo Liu
2014-07-25 15:34   ` Drew Adams
2014-07-25 18:12     ` Leo Liu
2014-07-25 19:06       ` Drew Adams
2014-07-26  1:10         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-07-26  9:00           ` martin rudalics
2014-07-26  1:30       ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-26  1:39   ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-26  3:33     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-08-05  8:35     ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-06 16:54       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-08-07  3:30         ` Leo Liu
2014-07-25 15:13 ` Drew Adams

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