From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: frame-local variables weirdness Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:51:05 +0200 Message-ID: <858x65lh4m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192384362 26386 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2007 17:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 19:52:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ih7bx-0005wh-Uv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:50:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih7br-0005hr-90 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih7bY-0005c7-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih7bW-0005aG-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih7bW-0005a8-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih7bW-0002HE-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih7bQ-0004gc-8x; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B72431C4CE11; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:51:05 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 14 Oct 2007 12\:29\:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80858 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > PS: As a matter of fact, I don't even see a need for frame-local variables > at all: they *are* used currently, but only because they exist. > > I see that currently they are not used very much. However, I would > not have added the feature merely because it made sense. I would > only have done so if it solved a problem. I would expect there was > some discussion at the time about reasons to add the feature. Can > someone find that discussion and see what the motive was? Maybe it is something better achieved by terminal-local variables. Those were not available at that time. Just a guess. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum