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: Sat, 19 May 2018 23:19:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87603jn0ma.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526786285 6046 195.159.176.226 (20 May 2018 03:18:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 03:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: shea@shealevy.com, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Shahid Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 05:18:01 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 1fKErB-0001S9-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 05:18:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEtI-0003Ku-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEtB-0003EG-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEtA-0005uS-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53279) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEt3-0005nh-QY; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:19:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEt3-0003xG-Aw; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:19:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <87603jn0ma.fsf@gmail.com> (message from John Shahid on Sat, 19 May 2018 15:09:17 +0000) 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:225463 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. ]]] > Out of curiosity, if we go down this path, are we willing to change > functions such as `with-temp-buffer' to create a child buffer by default > ? I doubt that is desirable in most cases. I think most of these temp buffers should be left alone. -- 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.