From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:57:52 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87r7fm2hr3.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <87sm0fbjx4.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <874qcvqar0.fsf@spamfoil.invalid> <87oeb2c2x5.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <87fywebcp7.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> <87ll66pavk.fsf@spamfoil.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117642616 12096 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2005 16:16:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 18:16:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdVrp-0002O0-En for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:14:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdVx9-0001wW-7E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:20:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qp6jSCXWte5dCLtzEmsBuIRDFBw= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.32.43 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1117641472 67.71.32.43 (Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:57:52 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:57:52 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131678 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27139 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27139 > [(declare (special ...))] >> those declarations are there to pacify the Common Lisp cravings of >> the author. The right thing to do is to defvar the global variables at >> the top level (either in url-http.el itself or in one of the libraries >> it requires). > Could you do that? Please don't unless there's a good reason other than personal preference. > It is (or has been, last time I looked) on the > release-critical list to get rid of these declarations. Which list? Which release? It's not in admin/FOR-RELEASE and it's not known to create any particular problem. Stefan