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Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warn
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: |
Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings? |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:07:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier [2021-09-28 08:51 -0400] wrote:
>>> Here I think we want something that's not buffer-local, so we'd need
>>> something else. Not sure what's the best option. Maybe
>>>
>>> (add-hook 'shortdoc-foo-functions #'...)
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> It faces the same problem: shortdoc somehow needs to know about 'foo'
>> a priori, for interactive group name completion.
>
> No, I meant for `foo` to be something like "extra" (i.e. a fixed name
> that I just didn't feel like choosing at the time I wrote the example).
> I.e. there'd be one shortdoc hook onto which packages would hang
> their functions that return extra entries. So instead of iterating through
> the obarray you'd only iterate through the list of functions on
> that hook.
Ah, right, then that's indeed one of the two options I was originally
thinking of (the other being global symbol properties).
--
Basil
- Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Adam Porter, 2021/09/22
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/09/23
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Adam Porter, 2021/09/24
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/24
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Adam Porter, 2021/09/24
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/09/26
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/27
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/09/28
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?, Stefan Monnier, 2021/09/28
- Re: Supporting newer Emacs features in older Emacs versions without warnings?,
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