[climacs-devel] update-syntax and delegating buffers

[Robert Strandh]

Hello, 

Christophe Rhodes writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > The change to delegating buffers has had a side effect for me: my
 > UPDATE-SYNTAX method used to be able to obtain the name of the buffer
 > it was updating for, but it can no longer, because the
 > delegating-buffer method for update-syntax calls update-syntax on the
 > implementation buffer, which doesn't mix in the name-mixin class.
 > 
 > Is there a reason for this surrounding method?  Is it simply to save a
 > generic function call per buffer operation?  Should I not be
 > attempting to find the name of a buffer from within UPDATE-SYNTAX?

This exact problem is discussed in the context of CLIM encapsulating
streams, section C.1.2.  Perhaps the solution to our problem is
similar to that suggested there. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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