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: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:13:52 +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: ger.gmane.org 1192382099 20036 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2007 17:14:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:14:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 19:14:49 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 1Ih72u-0000HS-Hf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:14:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih72n-00089X-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih72O-0007kE-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih72M-0007iL-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ih72M-0007i0-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:13:58 -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 1Ih72M-00039O-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:13:58 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so1268513wxc for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:13:52 -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=URIHF/2Di2cyudP+v5ok1V9pc9AhpEgx4WM74BEbWU4=; b=alepGYql4JH5pZU3gvog30ZqF3MP4Ou7BusTHBWQ7ARHVw+HmDlfVxTl0OPDbLtblS4sHW8ptKK6jobprrAJZUk1J1jg+1PvUTnxzqiRwNEJrY48v36lXeu4EyJhr8/9y9NkMTmlKSQFat1dDVg+ZQLtVkhD+IhbaUzuje+rKJE= 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=tX847Ywxr/ujc1GpK76gMXNs7jol42s2+9koZvYO8HsUYnmW5GnRLu1lb/Te0dhe4IsssAyLD4sXG5NO9ZM24zLC7YX33upDTrCzqNWn0GbW87kcQ9uUkWh4ri4eWbI5Z3LD6+n1wFHjGTBd/duIIsdf8oqsY8sCd7Iec2vWo0s= Original-Received: by 10.90.92.10 with SMTP id p10mr7535470agb.1192382032450; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.103.8 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:13:52 -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:80854 Archived-At: On 10/14/07, Richard Stallman wrote: > I see that currently they are not used very much. There are four elisp packages that use it currently on the trunk, and one of them is bs.el, where I added a frame-local variable but I will surely remove it because I now think it is the wrong fix for the problem I was solving. > I would expect there was some > discussion at the time about reasons to add the feature. Can someone find > that discussion and see what the motive was? That was over nine and a half years ago. The list archives of that time are not public, so it's a task for someone who was there at that moment. Juanma