From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [EPeterson@mcdonaldbradley.com: Kill ring leak in winemacs macros] Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:10:07 +0100 Message-ID: <43020FDF.6060007@gnu.org> References: <34161.128.165.123.83.1123097221.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <42F1208D.1070307@student.lu.se> <34340.128.165.123.83.1123102769.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <40280.128.165.123.83.1124204823.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124208687 24960 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 16:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 18:11:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5424-0000Vz-RP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:11:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E545R-0008SY-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E544U-0008FD-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E544M-0008BY-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E544L-0008Ay-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E54Eg-0002vK-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 37Q0TR01; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:05:15 +0100 Original-Received: from 10.10.5.77 ([10.10.5.77] helo=[10.10.5.77]) by ASSP-nospam ; 16 Aug 05 16:05:11 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: <40280.128.165.123.83.1124204823.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42131 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42131 Stuart D. Herring wrote: >I realize I never did implement this -- can I get some opinions on which >of these approaches to follow? So far my reasoning is that the >execute-kbd-macro path is simpler and cleaner, but the kill-functions path >is more transparent (as well as having the trivial advantage that it would >remain possible to permanently affect the interprogram-*-functions >variables from a keyboard macro). > > I'm not convinced this change is a good one. What if your macro involves a call-process call to an external program that interacts with Emacs via the keyboard?