Re: Two binding features

[David Kastrup]

Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Two primitive features that would be useful for mumamo
> (and perhaps othere programs) are:
>
> * A primitive that would let-bind variables from an alist.
> I think Common Lisp has such a construct; is that correct?
> I do not recall its name, though.
>
> * A way to temporarily turn off all buffer-local bindings.  This could
> take the form of a variable which you would bind with `let', and when
> it is non-nil, the buffer-local bindings are not visible.

How about making (with-current-buffer nil ...)  have that effect (in
case this is not already the case or an error)?  Or is that
inconvenient?

> I think any feature to temporarily switch modes, or pretend to do so,
> would find these features useful.

How so?

-- 
David Kastrup