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: run-with-timer does not display message Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:12:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k37e4tjw.fsf@gmail.com> <87d2d2e4ga.fsf@debian.uxu> <83bnsl5pxo.fsf@gnu.org> <878unputvv.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405793595 24886 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2014 18:13:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:13:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 20:13:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1X8Z88-00052t-5S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:13:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Z87-0005Ho-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Z7p-0005HV-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Z7h-0004jw-PT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Z7h-0004iv-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8Z7f-0004p5-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:12:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.224.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:12:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:12:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bXeBXVZxHt8DZEZqgFcZBLTBNPQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98799 Archived-At: > Because they can be encoded different things it makes sense calling > this lexical (because the value is simply read, not looked up) and not > "static". It's also called "static scoping". And the name doesn't have much to do with the implementation technique used. It's called "lexical" because the way a particular identifier use is matched to a particular variable only depends on the shape of the program text rather than depending on its run-time behavior. > This corresponds to an extent to > call-by-value/call-by-reference, No. CBV/CBR/CBN are orthogonal concepts to static/dynamic scoping. > 1. How do I put Emacs in lexical mode? Do I do that Put -*- lexical-binding:t -*- somewhere on the first line of your Elisp file. Stefan