Re: semi problem setting paragraph-start

At Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:13:29 +0900,
Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> > (defun turn-on-mime-edit ()
> >     ...
> >     (setq paragraph-start
> > 	  (regexp-or mime-edit-single-part-tag-regexp
> > 		     paragraph-start))
> 
> > The problem is that paragraph-start is set here many times so it
> > becomes very very long. 307 nested groups.
> 
> That's obviously a bug.  In addition, there's also the same
> problem about `paragraph-separate'.
> 
> > One of the commenters in that thread noted that "turn-on-mime-edit"
> > must have been called repeatedly. The folks on emacs.devel suggest
> > that it's necessary to "call make-local-variable on paragraph-start."
> 
> > Does this seem like a problem? What else can I do to help track it
> > down?
> 
> It's not necessarily a problem if FOO-mail-mode, which runs
> `turn-on-mime-edit', makes `paragraph-start' buffer-local or is
> derived from a mode which does it.  For example, it's not a
> problem in Semi-gnus.

Since mime-edit does change the value for its specific purpose,
mime-edit itself is responsible for making the variable local.
Therefore Yamaoka-san's change in semi-1_14 branch seems
appropriate. Why don't you merge it to emiko-1_14 branch?

Regards,
-- 
Yoichi NAKAYAMA