From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propagating local variables? Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 23:18:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87in7mv5jn.fsf@xps13.shealevy.com> <1148d91b-92a2-e970-e6cb-0fcc0a951c8c@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526613466 7120 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2018 03:17:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 03:17:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 05:17:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVtl-0001lZ-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 05:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVvs-0003tO-Nw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 23:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVv8-0003t1-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 23:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVv5-0007Ze-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 23:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56087 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVv5-0007ZM-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 23:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJVsw-0000st-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 05:16:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z+QQh5eVEhSf01wBSc0D7QRGe7Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225386 Archived-At: >> 2. How do we actually ensure the variables are propagated? I wrote the >> inherit-local package to do the propagation, but there's no obvious >> hook point to call it (thus the advice around generate-new-buffer) > We now have variable watchers: FWIW, I think it's better to avoid the problem of keeping copies in-sync altogether (by storing the info at a single place). Stefan