From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: "Richard Copley" <rcopley@gmail.com>,
"martin rudalics" <rudalics@gmx.at>,
"Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
"Emacs Development" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"Juri Linkov" <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: Re: goto-line-history should not be buffer local.
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:56:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtuqby683.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YCwx0eSqEeBz2xcW@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:57:53 +0000")
> The point about the approach I've taken is that once a variable has
> undergone make-variable-buffer-local, it cannot be changed back to a
> non-local variable, except by restarting Emacs.
In some cases, you can unintern the symbol, but yes, it's basically
impossible :-(
> (I'm not sure whether or not this is a design bug)
I think it's just a feature noone bothered to implement.
I don't think it would require any change to the existing code.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-14 19:18 goto-line-history should not be buffer local Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-14 23:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-02-14 23:31 ` Richard Copley
2021-02-15 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2021-02-15 21:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 11:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-16 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-02-16 20:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-16 22:52 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-16 22:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-18 0:26 ` Rolf Ade
2021-02-18 10:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-02-18 11:04 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-02-18 11:38 ` Rolf Ade
2021-02-18 10:53 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-02-18 11:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-02-16 22:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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