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31.0.50; Todo mode bug revealed by setq-default change

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 78608-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78608: 31.0.50; Todo mode bug revealed by setq-default change
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 17:21:07 +0200

On Wed, 28 May 2025 13:45:33 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 17:53:24 +0200
>> From:  Stephen Berman via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
[...]
>> Problem (pre-master): Then I tested invoking `todo-jump-to-category'
>> from outside of a todo-mode buffer and specifying a non-existing
>> category, and saw the same pattern, which, however, now reverses the
>> problem status: the new (empty) category is displayed and there is the
>> now expected prompt for a Todo item in master but, now wrongly, not in
>> emacs-30; thus, in this case the behavior in emacs-30 (and earlier)
>> contradicts the documentation.  To reproduce, carry out the above recipe
>> (in master and in emacs-30), but in step 5 enter "test2" at the prompt
>> instead of "test1".  (When I implemented `todo-jump-to-category', I
>> apparently failed to test this case and haven't made use of it since.)
>> 
>> Applying the above patch to emacs-30 also fixes this problem, and with
>> the patch the other case (specifying an existing category) still works
>> correctly in emacs-30.  The fact that the latter case also works
>> correctly in emacs-30 without the patch is evidently due to the
>> problematic behavior of `setq-local' fixed by f3e0bdf1b98.  The patch
>> has a narrow scope, so I think it's safe enough to commit to emacs-30,
>> even though the bug there is not a regression; but if that's not
>> acceptable, I'll commit it to master.
>
> I'm okay with committing this to emacs-30.

Thanks, done in commit 4507b6a9c75 and closing the bug.

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