Re: Setting global variables (was: About zcomplete)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > FWIW, I've been toying with the idea of adding a kind of "advice"
  > mechanism for variables.

  > Basically associate with every variable a base value and a list of
  > functions that modify it.  Then minor modes can add a function to the
  > list (which would implicitly update the var's effective value) when
  > enabled and then remove it afterwards.

I'm not sure what that last sentence means.  Are you proposing a
low-level mechanism that would take specified actions whenever the
variable gets set?  Or a Lisp-level facility that would achieve
similar results?

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