Re: regexp linting run in Emacs tree

[Mattias Engdegård]

5 aug. 2019 kl. 00.57 skrev Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> 
>> relint blindly assumes default values of global variables. What about adding 
>> a `delete-dups' to make it shut up?
> 
> That would slow down and complicate the source a bit. Maybe just add the 
> glitch to the delinter's exception list, if any.

There isn't one and I had hoped not having to add such a mechanism. Partly 
because it is a cop-out, and partly because it, too, would litter the source 
with alien comments like

  ;; relint: skip-set-duplicate

the kind of which, in my experience, tend to linger far beyond their usefulness 
and mystify innocent readers of the code.
(Sticking the suppressions in a separate .relint-exceptions file is not a 
better solution.)

What about the fairly lightweight attached patch? It's about as cheap as can 
be, while keeping it readable.

> Oh, thanks, I see the point now. I installed the attached.

Good, thank you. I especially like how you removed the "FIXME: replace it with 
something shorter" comment, since you did, in effect, do just that!

0001-Shut-up-regexp-linter.patch
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