From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67925 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.jabber.general Subject: Re: gnus shouldn't be making general-purpose variables buffer-local Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:22:51 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <863agokpas.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <9aa0cfde0812112242o38d885a1h12d9e4ac490021@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229448278 24759 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2008 17:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-jabber-general@lists.sourceforge.net To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16371@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 16 18:25:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCdfu-0003qH-C4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:25:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LCddk-0007gi-J3; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:23:24 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LCddj-0007gR-7L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:23:23 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LCddg-0007CU-En for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:23:23 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LCddq-0005Qx-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:30 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LCdda-0000uh-Ph for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:23:15 +0000 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:23:14 +0000 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:23:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AKjn4qfNABHZPc260FHCUTCrpIU= X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67925 gmane.emacs.jabber.general:826 Archived-At: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:42:39 -0800 "Ami Fischman" wrote: >> > Gnus makes 'timestamp a buffer-local variable in *Summary* buffers >> > (and, I suspect, any other set group parameter). This causes buggy >> > interaction with non-gnus (async, usually) functions that bind >> > 'timestamp as a function-local variable, such as emacs-jabber's >> > jabber-history-log-message. For the details please see >> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/105256. Can gnus be changed >> > to prefix such buffer-locals with at least gnus- or, better yet, >> > gnus-summary-- ? >> >> Did you ever have a positive answer to your request ? AF> Sad to say, I've gotten no replies at all. I am not able to do this soon due to lack of time, sorry. Perhaps another Gnus developer is interested? If not I'll put it on my TODO queue but it'll be at least a few weeks. Ted