Re: Emacs 27.1 released

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> Maybe this statement should be moderated somewhat.  I see in NEWS only that:
>>
>> ** Lexical binding is now used by default when evaluating interactive Elisp.
>
> I've been seeing some confusion about this on Reddit, where people have
> understood this to be the case generally.  Perhaps we should clarify the
> text currently available at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Definitely.  In fact, I think it would be better not to mention lexical
binding at all in the short-short NEWS overview there -- whether there's
lexical binding in the M-: command or not is something that almost
nobody will ever notice.

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