emacs: avoid unnecessary let-bindings

To some extend this is a personal preference, but the preference is
strongly dependent on whether one is used to a language that makes it
necessary to use variables like this.

This makes it perfectly clear that we are first getting and then using
a "foo":

  (use-foo (get-foo))

Sure this has to be read "inside out", but that's something one better
gets used to quickly when dealing with lisp.  I don't understand why
one would want to write this instead:

  (let ((the-foo (get-foo)))
    (use-foo the-foo))

Both `get-foo' and `use-foo' are named in a way that make it very
clear that we are dealing with a "foo".  Storing the value in an
additional variable `the-foo' does not make this any more clear.

On the contrary I makes the reader wonder why the author choose to
use a variable.  Is the value used more than once?  Is the value
being retrieved in one context and then used in another (e.g. when
the current buffer changes)?

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
index 2fd9a27d..cbac8859 100644
--- a/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
+++ b/emacs/notmuch-lib.el
@@ -416,9 +416,9 @@ A command that supports a prefix argument can explicitly document
 its prefixed behavior by setting the 'notmuch-prefix-doc property
 of its command symbol."
   (interactive)
-  (let* ((mode major-mode)
-	 (doc (substitute-command-keys
-	       (notmuch-substitute-command-keys (documentation mode t)))))
+  (let ((doc (substitute-command-keys
+	      (notmuch-substitute-command-keys
+	       (documentation major-mode t)))))
     (with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*notmuch-help*")
       (insert doc)
       (goto-char (point-min))