From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: run-with-timer does not display message Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6ad0eae7-140e-4b85-a51e-89b32379390c@default> References: <878unputvv.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mwc3stxc.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405887140 3649 80.91.229.3 (20 Jul 2014 20:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:12:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 20 22:12:14 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 1X8xSv-00054j-KV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:12:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8xSu-0000XR-LT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50079) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8xSd-0000XG-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8xSW-0008OY-9q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:22165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8xSW-0008OU-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:11:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s6KKBhpG025324 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:11:46 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s6KKBhIO020116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:11:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6KKBg5R019885; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:11:42 GMT In-Reply-To: <87mwc3stxc.fsf@debian.uxu> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:98838 Archived-At: > Why...would you want to use dynamic scope, and why is it the default? RMS replied to your question (a quarter-century before you posed it): http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC17