emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:50:45 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> While looking into bug#34973, bug#34974, and bug#34987, I accumulated
>> the attached changes to lisp/gnus/gnus-dup.el which I would like to push
>> to master.  WDYT?
>
> Given the games Gnus plays with bindings (see `defvoo' and `deffoo') the
> switch to lexical binding for gnus may prove to be complex.
>
> It would be better to avoid switching to lexical binding for a single
> file in gnus: rather, do that as part of a larger effort to switch all
> of gnus over to lexical binding.

FWIW, I've been compiling Gnus using lexical-binding for many years now,
and it's the MUA I use to spam this mailing-list, so at least the main
"read&write messages" works fine for the nnimap and nntp backends.

I think the def[fv]oo hacks don't get in the way of
lexical-binding at all.


        Stefan




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]