On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Currently, the eval-expression command (more fondly known as M-:)
> evaluates its argument in a protected scope.  The theory was to protect
> users from accidentally overwriting important things in conkeror's
> application scope.  In practice, it's not so useful, because apart from
> the odd bit of arithmetic, I find that the main reason I ever want to use
> M-: is to redefine things in conkeror.  Because of the protected scope,
> variables have to be prefixed with "conkeror." and function definitions
> have to be rephrased as assignments.
>
>  Experience now tells me this is more hassle than benefit.  Should we
> change it?
>

Yes, please! (For exactly the reason you outlined above.)

Best regards,
Riccardo
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