GNU bug report logs - #26623
24.5; bad variable name: `inside-post-command-hook'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:02:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 26623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 26623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26623: 24.5; bad variable name: `inside-post-command-hook'
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:37:08 +0300

> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 26623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> This is a perversion, which works against users.

It can only work in a few exceptional cases, I agree.  And I think
this is one such case.  If this were wide-spread, then yes, we should
have done something about it.

> > I think the name of this variable speaks very clearly for its purpose,
> > and see no reason for such formalism in this case.
> 
> No, it does not speak clearly for its purpose.

We disagree, that's all.
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