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[PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion

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Message #175 received at 66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: dmitry <at> gutov.dev, mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com, 66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#66706: [PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:35:42 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>   mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com,  66706 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 02:31:57 +0200
> 
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev> writes:
> 
> > There will be such users, but their number will likely be lower than
> > some might expect, simply because the lexical dialect very much
> > resembles how programs are written in other languages these days.
> 
> Short version of my reply: Emacs users are a different group than Elisp
> package developers.  Let's help them by forcing a lexical binding cookie
> in the config file instead of simply making their Emacs potentially not
> starting up.

If this is about init files, we could instead make processing init
files assume lexical-binding by default.

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