From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dave Goel <deego3@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs..
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:49:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmysnrcst.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ve7b4xt6.fsf@marie.gnufans.net> (Dave Goel's message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:01:25 -0500")
>> This will automatically fix all such code. The only problem with it is
>> that there is
> .. (in principle)..
Not just in principle. A quick "grep '(message.*%%' lisp/**/*.el" shows
a fair number.
>> code out there that calls message with a single arg and expects
>> `message' to dequote "%%" into "%".
> Indeed. We should leave `message' itelf alone.
Actually, I'd prefer changing message, but I already suggested it and it
was rejected (maybe I even installed the change and then backed it out,
can't remember).
The problem I wanted to address with this change was not just to fix
existing code but to try and avoid such bugs in the future as well.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-06 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 0:14 Fixing numerous `message' bugs D. Goel
2007-12-06 10:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-06 14:36 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 19:26 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-06 19:34 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 20:21 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-12-07 5:28 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-07 15:52 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-06 16:01 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-06 16:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-06 17:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-07 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-07 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-07 18:00 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-07 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-08 0:56 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-08 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-08 10:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-08 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-10 17:41 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 18:04 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-10 19:05 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 19:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-10 20:31 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 21:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-10 22:44 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 23:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-08 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
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