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Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill |
Date: |
07 Apr 2002 21:20:55 +0900 |
Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
> Indeed. But extents provide these same advantages. And it should not
> be difficult to write a text properties API on top of an extents
> mechanism.
What I'm arguing for is to keep the current interfaces, because I think
they're both useful. Whether or not they use the same underlying
mechanism is an implementation detail (about which others are more
knowledgable than I).
> So extents give you the best of all possible worlds, AFAICS.
We've already got an implementation that provides both; why change (but
see below)?
> Since I have the feeling that we are at this point arguing by repeated
> assertion, let me paste here the description of the problem I ran into
> using overlays for ibuffer, when RMS originally asked me why I thought
> overlays had a poor interface:
>From your description, it sounds like you would be happy if [certain]
text-properties could be optionally suppressed from being copied by a
user; true?
I think that would be a useful extension to text-properties.
What I'm not sure of why you seem to have come to the conclusion that a
whole-sale reworking of the way text-properties and overlays work is
required.
Cheers,
-Miles
--
Suburbia: where they tear out the trees and then name streets after them.
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, (continued)
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Alex Schroeder, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, John Wiegley, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Alex Schroeder, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/08
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/10
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, John Wiegley, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07