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From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: emacs-jabber-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus shouldn't be making general-purpose variables buffer-local
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:02:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqps7bte.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9aa0cfde0811020947m64cdcfe1rb8fb37a5bf84541a@mail.gmail.com>

"Ami Fischman" <ami@fischman.org> writes:

> 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-<group-name>- ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02 17:47 Ami Fischman
2008-12-10  7:02 ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
2008-12-12  6:42 Ami Fischman
2008-12-16 17:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-16 22:54   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-17  8:46     ` David Engster
2008-12-17  9:20       ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-17 10:21         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-22 17:36           ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-22 18:55           ` Reiner Steib
2008-12-22 20:53             ` Ami Fischman
2008-12-24  2:32             ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-17 11:10         ` David Engster
2008-12-17 12:26           ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-17 13:38             ` David Engster
2008-12-17 14:28               ` David Engster
2008-12-17 23:22                 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-18  0:19                   ` David Engster

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