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Re: I don't understand this comment on message2
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: I don't understand this comment on message2 |
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Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:58:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
> The buffer M must continue to exist until after the echo area gets
> cleared or some other message gets displayed there. This means do
> not pass text that is stored in a Lisp string; do not pass text in
> a buffer that was alloca'd. */
>
> I think that comment is probably obsolete. Nowadays the echo area
> text is stored in real buffers. Before Emacs 20, I think it was
> stored in null-terminated C strings.
>
> You could double-check this by looking at the code from Emacs 19.
> If this comment was needed for that reason, it can be deleted now.
That was the reason, yes. I have rewritten the comment.
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk