From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we expand the valid location of "Local Variables" ? Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:54:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83k13bawyn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r1y0apzm.fsf@secretsauce.net> <87h7ygoulz.fsf@dima.secretsauce.net> <83sghzb1f9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="106965"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dima@secretsauce.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 23 16:54:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jGPPg-000RiE-BW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:54:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35960 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGPPf-00054w-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jGPOu-0004Gm-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55659) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jGPOt-0002YU-Mk; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1788 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jGPOs-0004Cb-K7; Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:54:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:28:49 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245720 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: dima@secretsauce.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:28:49 +0100 > > >>>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:17:46 +0200, Eli Zaretskii said: > > >> From: Robert Pluim > >> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:25:28 +0100 > >> Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> > >> Would providing a defcustom be such a hardship? > > Eli> Given that "enlarging the limit is a bad idea", I'm not even sure we > Eli> should provide a variable. We definitely shouldn't document > Eli> it. > > In that case we shouldnʼt even provide the variable, no? Possibly. Stefan didn't say why he thought adding a variable was an improvement, but my guess would be ease of change in the future.