From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67886 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ami Fischman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.jabber.general Subject: Re: gnus shouldn't be making general-purpose variables buffer-local Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:42:39 -0800 Message-ID: <9aa0cfde0812112242o38d885a1h12d9e4ac490021@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229064235 16550 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 06:43:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:43:55 +0000 (UTC) To: "Xavier Maillard" , emacs-jabber-general@lists.sourceforge.net, ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16332@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 12 07:45:01 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 1LB1lj-0002I3-2y for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:44:59 +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 1LB1k3-0006YS-Pg; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:43:15 -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 1LB1k2-0006YI-7u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:43:14 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LB1jz-0008GH-Ab for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:43:14 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f16.google.com ([209.85.219.16]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LB1kB-0003SD-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:43:23 +0100 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1532648ewy.17 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:42:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.210.61.8 with SMTP id j8mr3695222eba.45.1229064159379; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:42:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.210.92.12 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:42:39 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67886 gmane.emacs.jabber.general:823 Archived-At: > > 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 ? Sad to say, I've gotten no replies at all. -a P.S. Please keep my address on the cc line of replies in future. Thanks.