From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:16:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nad60og84.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lhr7zfnp40.fsf_-_@dodo.bluetail.com
On 09 Dec 2003, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
> Yes, the semantics would be cleaner, but check the example I posted
> where we rebind default-directory and switch back&forth between
> buffers: the old semantics is odd but some code relies on it
> (basically using `let' instead of `cd').
I see the problem with that code. Is it so common a practice that it
can't be rewritten where it already happens, and deprecated for the
future? It seems pretty confusing for the maintainers and only
slightly convenient for the programmers.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-10 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 21:46 Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Frank Schmitt
2003-11-17 0:49 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-11-17 4:06 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-11-17 4:29 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-30 16:36 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-30 18:01 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2003-11-30 18:39 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-30 18:12 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-11-30 19:40 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-01 16:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-02 14:45 ` Ted Lemon
2003-12-02 15:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:18 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-03 12:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-02 18:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-03 13:03 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-12-02 17:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 17:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 23:38 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 13:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 14:07 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 14:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-04 15:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 16:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-04 15:58 ` Nic Ferrier
2003-12-04 16:26 ` non-blocking sockets (was Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Nic Ferrier
2003-12-05 11:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-12-04 19:55 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-04 20:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-05 12:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 13:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-05 14:44 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-07 23:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 16:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 17:09 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-08 18:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 22:02 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-08 18:25 ` What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Luke Gorrie
2003-12-08 19:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 20:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-08 22:09 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-08 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 19:57 ` What's the problem? Simon Josefsson
2003-12-09 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2003-12-10 0:58 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 4:35 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-10 5:38 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 5:51 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-10 6:34 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-10 7:19 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-11 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-11 23:09 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-12 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-13 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-13 17:29 ` Jan D.
2003-12-13 17:35 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-14 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-14 11:55 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-14 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-14 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-10 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-11 14:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-10 15:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-11 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-12 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-11 18:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-11 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-12 3:27 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-12 3:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-13 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-13 4:08 ` Miles Bader
2003-12-13 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-14 13:12 ` Emacs kill buffer Camm Maguire
2003-12-09 19:28 ` What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-09 22:02 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-10 0:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-10 1:41 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-10 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-12 0:44 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-10 0:45 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-10 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-09 19:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-09 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-10 15:16 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
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2003-12-13 23:15 ` What's the problem? Richard Stallman
2003-12-14 3:21 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 8:58 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-05 11:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 12:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 20:37 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-05 21:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-08 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-08 1:26 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2003-12-04 17:22 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 18:01 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 18:31 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 19:26 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-04 22:05 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-04 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 23:00 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 12:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 13:16 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 21:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-05 14:46 ` David Kastrup
2003-12-05 15:07 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-05 13:56 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-12-05 21:33 ` non-blocking auto-save (was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?) Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-03 20:01 ` Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs? Nic Ferrier
2003-12-03 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-03 21:42 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-04 18:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 13:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-12-04 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-06 20:58 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 0:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-07 14:52 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 16:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-12-07 4:16 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-12-07 14:53 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-07 23:00 ` Martin Stjernholm
2003-11-17 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-17 22:53 ` David Masterson
2003-11-18 5:57 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-20 19:19 ` David Masterson
2003-11-22 21:19 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-18 6:52 ` John Wiegley
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