From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: default-toplevel-value and set-default-toplevel-value
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 05:29:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8360m7xt8y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy3zlrsyc.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:57:09 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:57:09 -0500
>
> > These functions were evidently introduced in Emacs 24.4, but they are
> > not documented, neither in NEWS nor in the ELisp manual. The doc
> > strings are minimal, and leave me confused about how these are
> > different from default-value and set-default. Is this just about a
> > possible let-binding of a localized variable,
>
> Yes.
>
> > or is there something else involved?
>
> No, that's it.
I seem to see there's more to this than meets the eye, see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-12/msg00924.html.
Could you please help me understand it? I'd like to document this for
Emacs 25.2.
TIA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-26 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 16:19 default-toplevel-value and set-default-toplevel-value Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-24 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-26 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-26 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-26 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-26 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-26 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-27 1:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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