From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propagating local variables? Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 23:19:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526699912 17457 195.159.176.226 (19 May 2018 03:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 03:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: shea@shealevy.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 05:18:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsO3-0004RP-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 05:18:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsQA-0003Tv-BY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:20:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsPT-0003Tn-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:19:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsPS-0008L9-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsPQ-0008Fn-7d; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsPP-0000Rq-KK; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:19:51 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Thu, 17 May 2018 21:28:36 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225418 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.