From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: frame-local variables weirdness Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:03:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <858x65lh4m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192932266 18446 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2007 02:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 04:04:26 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 1IjQAz-0003C6-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:04:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjQAs-0006mN-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjQAo-0006mF-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjQAo-0006lk-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjQAn-0006la-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjQAb-0001ct-DW; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([74.12.207.168]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071021020400.USGL13659.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@ceviche.home>; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2EF60B41C2; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:03:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 20 Oct 2007 10\:57\:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:81323 Archived-At: > I simply think we should move in the direction of dropping frame-local > variables in favor of something else. > Maybe we should eliminate them, but I haven't decided yet that > we should eliminate them, and the bug is not a good reason to do so. But what about adding just the checks that make it impossilbe to mix buffer-localness and frame-localness on the same var? At least if people use this feature, we'll then know about it. Stefan