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Re: toggle-read-only should not give compilation warnings
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: toggle-read-only should not give compilation warnings |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:22:40 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Chong Yidong wrote:
> There are lots of toggle-read-only warnings in the Emacs Lisp source
> tree.
I count 10 (excluding obsolete/). Some are probably already suppressed
though. Of these:
cedet/ede/util.el seems obviously wrong.
cedet/semantic/debug.el and vc/ediff.el are unclear to me.
gnus/smime.el seems bugged (fails to ensure a pre-existing buffer is
read-write).
vc/vc-cvs.el seems wrong.
vc/vc.el not immediately clear.
> As far as I can tell, the overwhelming majority of these are all
> legitimate use cases. The typical intention is "do whatever the
> `toggle-read-only' command does, then do some other stuff on top of
> that," so the caveat about toggle-read-only not being used in Lisp
> code is bogus.
The obvious intention is to make the buffer read-only. Often it's
unclear to me whether the author also wanted the "extra stuff" that
toggle-read-only does (which is only view-mode, isn't it?), or just
didn't think about it.
IMO, it would be better to factor out the view mode enabling piece to a
separate function to be explicitly called when necessary after setting
buffer-read-only. This would then remove the ambiguity.
Some issues caused by inappropriate use of toggle-read-only are: 7292,
10006.
Maybe on average it's right to use it as often as it is wrong. A warning
at least might make people thunk about whether they do want to use it.
Re: toggle-read-only should not give compilation warnings, Richard Stallman, 2012/07/11