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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One-off history for read-string
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:50:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpp13xtai.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h9mhbp26.fsf@mbork.pl

> From Emacs' point of view, it's kind of read-only; while read-string
> does write to it, it _doesn't matter_ at all.  But you can call it what
> you want.  I'm not very good at naming things, apparently.

BTW, I think another option here might be to use a normal global
variable, and to simply `setq' it (instead of let-bind) to the proper
value just before you use it.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-24 12:10 One-off history for read-string Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-24 16:27   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-24 17:04     ` Drew Adams
2015-09-25  0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-25  7:16   ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-26  2:02     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26  2:33       ` John Mastro
2015-09-26  2:47         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-26  7:46           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27  1:20             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-27  6:02               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 23:14                 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-09-28  0:50             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-09-26  7:46         ` Marcin Borkowski

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