"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The buffer M must continue to exist until after the echo area gets > cleared or some other message gets displayed there. This means do > not pass text that is stored in a Lisp string; do not pass text in > a buffer that was alloca'd. */ > > I think that comment is probably obsolete. Nowadays the echo area > text is stored in real buffers. Before Emacs 20, I think it was > stored in null-terminated C strings. > > You could double-check this by looking at the code from Emacs 19. > If this comment was needed for that reason, it can be deleted now.
That was the reason, yes. I have rewritten the comment. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
