Syntax of 'show babel' commands?

Martin Mareš mj at ucw.cz
Thu Oct 16 15:06:25 CEST 2025


Hello, world!\n

> Yes, exactly. In earlier versions, we forbade names that collide with
> keywords, but that caused compatibility issues when users upgrade to a
> new version, which may have new keywords that are accidentally the same
> as user-defined names. We changed that so a used-defined name overrides
> the keyword, so there is no compatibility problem, but it may lead to
> a strange behavior like this, as (due to how our parser is written) the
> name-keyword distinction is done independently of any context.

Perhaps it deserves a warning when parsing the configuration file then?

				Martin


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