From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Setting global variables (was: About zcomplete) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:35:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83r17vt6yn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20220220040515.zum3iodtpscj23j3.ref@Ergus> <20220220040515.zum3iodtpscj23j3@Ergus> <87wnhp4wu3.fsf@posteo.net> <20220220132708.lvuzvg2fyfpp6k76@Ergus> <87y224v767.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26711"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, juri@linkov.net, spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 13:43:50 2022 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 1nMUWD-0006lc-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:43:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58942 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMUWC-0006MQ-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:43:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMUOE-0001IZ-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=46238 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMUOD-0005mi-Hh; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:35:33 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=DCEYAX6R3k3H7RHGhWsseHn0vn1TAWZOg2TDRUVLHs0=; b=ZXXlzMR58q2K dUHDhSe1cOA76I3cpNRPdrX8i2UseaU/4gMr6z+j/YWatfa9Xy/YfWZWsfJeFB7scHiyOQA1j9/be CvWEGsRN9hKx60fwQgyQWeC4rHfR1Z7cBEt2Rr18/c9xWnIG1bSODoeeMY276gIiHRCsv3yT0bO4c V6fMCTd/Jr0dZu8rqiZMxN9MHAjdXrMaEzJzxcioE34UCqVBK2ivZIFnL1dYs26XxSzc4oduMsfkj 2J5R2H38c1HBZfJvabkIDXDNhNijO/JLaCujV3SLn3vtHKrAQkppG5FlGH7Ja/2Uj3XI8+Yn0lE0S E5Y1mjMcfIfipYXXCnMnZQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1443 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nMUNl-0005aW-KN; Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:35:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:14:29 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286588 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:14:29 -0500 > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, juri@linkov.net > > I'm not sure what that last sentence means. Are you proposing a > low-level mechanism that would take specified actions whenever the > variable gets set? If this is the proposal (I didn't interpret it that way), then we already have such a feature: add-variable-watcher.