From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One-off history for read-string
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:50:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpp13xtai.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h9mhbp26.fsf@mbork.pl
> From Emacs' point of view, it's kind of read-only; while read-string
> does write to it, it _doesn't matter_ at all. But you can call it what
> you want. I'm not very good at naming things, apparently.
BTW, I think another option here might be to use a normal global
variable, and to simply `setq' it (instead of let-bind) to the proper
value just before you use it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-28 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-24 12:10 One-off history for read-string Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-24 16:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-25 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-25 7:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-26 2:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26 2:33 ` John Mastro
2015-09-26 2:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-27 6:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 23:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-28 0:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-09-26 7:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
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