From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nnoo.el: how to update server variables
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 20:09:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4cgttwh.fsf@vostro.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ozu6q4.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:55:15 +0100")
On Dec 24 2015, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
>
>> I am trying to update a server variable from one of (Gnus') backend
>> functions. My first attempt was
>>
>> (defvoo nnimap-my-state nil)
>> (deffoo nnimap-request-list (&optional server)
>> (nnoo-change-server 'nnimap server nil)
>> (message "Old state: %s" nnimap-my-state)
>> (setq nnimap-my-state 42))
>>
>> but that did not work (successive invocations would all run with
>> nnimap-my-state being nil). After studying the nnoo.el sources for a
>> bit, I concluded that nnoo-change-server updates the declared server
>> variables to the per-server values, but does not copy any changes back.
>
> I don't think that's correct. When you change the server, nnoo will
> stash all the values of all the "defvoo" values, and will copy them back
> again when you change back to the original server.
Ok, so why doesn't the above work then?
Best,
-Nikolaus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-27 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-11 19:45 nnoo.el: how to update server variables Nikolaus Rath
2015-12-24 16:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-27 4:09 ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2015-12-27 6:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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