From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-file-name-predicate Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:11:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173280311 7692 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2007 15:11:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , Emacs-Devel To: "Stefan Monnier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 16:11:35 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 1HOxnh-0007xa-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:11:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOxnn-0003EI-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOxnb-0003Ba-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOxnZ-0003Aa-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:11:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOxnZ-0003AX-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HOxnS-0001ty-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so142075nze for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:11:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=epCpvPCsOa9SjqwLGvFZsk0b0fjbAIM5jFo6waoPSbq7lGkJAdSvOHjWhO4NFGEi9OL8WH8TzZaoAymMpklDOZ4+KeFAZXoH6iVNN+NQt5c7Raodvxs/SUoFZ/rmGOUWuQNVHWrWNvzWHZnug+zvdF2j9XGyjcUF2yEiwH2xKFs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RcytDhwoxqq3ZRdfcIIQdAXFJ+e1W1t1w86kaEBwDL5v9k8Zkxx5Dx7q4WTQNPmHQUqNsrKsJMAgUPLXWqncp1Wv2qqT5jAOr8knBY5ZyFtoqBfTJmDY/sIYG+YPQ33sEa2UJJnUM+qG8zDxDQ+FN68/yfZiKOqEdPY55GQjO/M= Original-Received: by 10.114.181.1 with SMTP id d1mr2229704waf.1173280274820; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:11:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.114.234.16 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 07:11:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:67507 Archived-At: On 3/7/07, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Being visible from Lisp doesn't mean it's external. Lots of elisp packages > have internal variables as well. You're right, but I suppose Drew's point is: why it is visible from Lisp *at all*? It is not used anywhere from lisp/*.el, and the only src/* to use it is fileio.c. I see Kim added it relatively recently, along with read-file-name-function, which is used in ido. Perhaps he had some intended use in mind? Juanma