Re: What's the problem? (Was: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?)

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 09 Dec 2003, address@hidden wrote:

> Yes, the semantics would be cleaner, but check the example I posted
> where we rebind default-directory and switch back&forth between
> buffers: the old semantics is odd but some code relies on it
> (basically using `let' instead of `cd').

I see the problem with that code.  Is it so common a practice that it
can't be rewritten where it already happens, and deprecated for the
future?  It seems pretty confusing for the maintainers and only
slightly convenient for the programmers.

Ted