From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 29422@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29422: 27.0.50; Symbol enable-multibyte-characters may not be buffer-local
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:07:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzi79pzf0.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834lpi8eek.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:19:15 +0200")
>> > Yes, but signaling "Setting constant" when we actually mean a
>> > read-only symbol is sub-optimal, IMO.
>> That's the error that we've been using for (setq
>> enable-multibyte-characters ...) since Emacs-21.
> ??? The code you changed signaled a "Symbol %s may not be
> buffer-local" error, not "Setting constant". What am I missing?
My patch did not touch `setq`. It just made `make-local-variable` and
`make-buffer-local-variable` signal the same error as `setq`.
> I meant for you to do that, as part of fixing this problem, but if you
> don't feel like it, we should at least change the ELisp manual, as it
> now contradicts the code.
If you mean the doc of `setq`, then I guess this discrepancy has been
with us since Emacs-21.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-26 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 7:56 bug#29422: 27.0.50; Symbol enable-multibyte-characters may not be buffer-local Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-25 1:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-25 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-25 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-26 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-11-26 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-26 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 4:42 ` bug#29422: [SUSPECTED SPAM] " Stefan Monnier
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