From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: frame-local variables weirdness Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192379648 13239 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2007 16:34:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 18:33:59 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 1Ih6Pd-0002g2-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6PX-0001gs-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6LB-0006CI-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6L9-0006Av-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih6L9-0006Ak-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih6L9-0001jp-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ih6L8-0000Kr-TI; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:29:18 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:33:40 -0400) 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:80852 Archived-At: 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?