From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: shea@shealevy.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Propagating local variables?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 23:19:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fJsPP-0000Rq-KK@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27eo1lh8r.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Thu, 17 May 2018 21:28:36 -0700)
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> I think so too, except that it won't work well with legacy modules, if they
> weren't written with such inheritance in mind.
It won't be terribly hard to make simple fixes in them.
Or we could make a variable to hold list of major modes for which they
want to make heuristic decisions about inherited buffer-locals. This
way, users could request the heuristic approach for any modules for
which that is desirable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-19 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-15 19:37 Propagating local variables? John Wiegley
2018-05-16 3:42 ` Roland Winkler
2018-05-16 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-16 18:59 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-16 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-16 22:46 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-17 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-16 21:02 ` Roland Winkler
2018-05-17 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-17 5:16 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-18 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 4:28 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-18 20:15 ` Shea Levy
2018-05-19 3:19 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-05-19 15:09 ` John Shahid
2018-05-20 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-17 12:18 ` Shea Levy
2018-05-17 14:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-18 2:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-19 12:06 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-20 19:09 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-19 12:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-19 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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