From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: D <d.williams@posteo.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strange/cryptic org variables
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:41:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muabbia8.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42f14e78-d544-423b-f87c-24ee04f8d796@posteo.net>
D <d.williams@posteo.net> writes:
> org.el seems to define three weird variables: org-m, org-l and org-f
> (see below). Two of these variables (l and f) are used exclusively in
> org-level-face, while m is not used anywhere in the code. They don't
> appear to be used in the other source files, either.
>
> Is there a particular reason for them being accessible outside of the
> function? They seem oddly.. exposed. Or is it some kind of performance
> reason?
I doubt there's a convincing reason for these variables to exist. They
have been around for a long time, as far back as you can trace the
history in the git repository: 4be4c5623 (version 4.12a, 2008-01-31).
Even in 4be4c5623, org-m wasn't used anywhere in the code base.
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2020-01-23 19:16 strange/cryptic org variables D
2020-01-25 16:41 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2020-01-25 18:25 ` Bastien
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