From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propagating local variables? Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 21:28:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526617633 21592 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2018 04:27:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 04:27:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) Cc: shea@shealevy.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 06:27:09 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 1fJWyy-0005VQ-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 06:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJX13-0004t7-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJX0u-0004sv-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJX0q-0007kL-Tk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJX0q-0007kD-Pr; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:51053) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fJX0i-0004AC-5c; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4DD21B3B; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:28:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 18 May 2018 00:28:55 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1938BE4115; Fri, 18 May 2018 00:28:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 17 May 2018 22:32:55 -0400") Mail-Followup-To: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, shea@shealevy.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:225387 Archived-At: >>>>> Richard Stallman writes: > * specify, when creating a buffer, what parent buffer (if any) it should > have. > I think the second way will be better controlled, because it won't depend on > heuristics. I think so too, except that it won't work well with legacy modules, if they weren't written with such inheritance in mind. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2