Syntax of 'show babel' commands?

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Thu Oct 16 16:13:27 CEST 2025


On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Martin Mareš wrote:
> 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?

Yes, thought about that, will add it.

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Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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