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: frame-local variables weirdness Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:41:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192208007 23275 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 16:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 18:53:16 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 1IgNZf-0000r5-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:41:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNZY-0008IU-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNZV-0008IE-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNZR-0008Hf-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgNZR-0008Hc-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgNZR-0001GA-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:41:05 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so850979wxc for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:41:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; 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; bh=JY6b8RNPJFAMHGesDE7kDmMpEmKD5KzGz5s8vBDMGh8=; b=fNoikrF80U0pVhgFblGupLrSCSwqShmrHy+cuGsQ9vfRTvyOELSx7DQMs9WY44fFHmDy7OvxZc9C+UGN+SwJ1hccBzI3oHzdtFxpZ1t+FaFSz/PhgrWfrAUAH1CNKGdiY0+q3/uqmExz49gb3aXeqR9QNfYYFnjKyHFImxejBWU= 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=qqkweLvm+p8Zev3bK//RulfTxOqZ6ES1nN1jHtvkPWKIC2qp7Kw5qaHGUicOr0RAaQlo6UAHcg/fSyahpG1rfH1KsmEPtPCrYb/isrGfUyvN1897ORfJy10KYqaxUBV3MsULuOR/DwZ3U9UmUEaOGAi2qN5FQYZ+HdD7AuIgEAI= Original-Received: by 10.90.113.18 with SMTP id l18mr5074129agc.1192207263481; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.103.8 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:41:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:80731 Archived-At: On 10/12/07, Richard Stallman wrote: > What are those other problems? > > I could install that patch, so we can discover and fix the > other problems. But if you have already seen them, let's > debug them first. I tried it a few days ago, and font-locking started acting erratically: it worked OK in some buffers, partially in other buffers, and not at all in some. And, IIRC, when you originally posted the patch it did work for me, but you reported problems with some of the mode line contents. > I'd much rather disallow variables that are both buffer-local and frame-local. > > We should not cavalierly disallow the use of features in combination > just because there is a bug. That quote is not mine, but Stefan's. I still agree with him, though, that there's not much gained with frame-local variables, over simple frame parameters. Juanma