GNU bug report logs - #39823
26.3; update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 39823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39823: 26.3;
 update-directory-autoloads regression from Emacs 26 to Emacs 27
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 07:48:47 -0400

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I have nothing against lexcal scoping (all to the contrary), and
> always found it strange that I had to dynamically bound values
> variable calling `update-directory-autoloads'.  Perhaps a simple fix
> would be to allow passing the values it needs as arguments (while
> maintaining backward compatibility, i.e., make those arguments
> optional?).

Hmm, I guess we could add a &key style arg (I don't think plain
&optional would be possible in a backward compatible way because the
current arg list is &rest DIRS; there wouldn't be any way to distinguish
the optional directory argument).
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