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Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?


From: Peter Whaite
Subject: Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:59:36 -0400

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am not sure this thing is really the right thing to do, at any time.
> It could be more trouble than it is worth, and we might prefer just
> to find the things that fail to reclaim their overlays.

I suspect most overlays already have an explicit evaporate property
set but I dont know.  Richards suggestion would at least tell us that.

I thought I would quickly try it out, but all the overlay defuns are in
C code and it would require a fair bit of effort on my part to become
familiar with the C mechanisms (how to set, get properties, invoke other
defuns, etc.), and I dont have that much time.

The little I have read about defadvice suggests it might do for some
preliminary tests.  Can someone advise me if thats the case?

-- 
Peter Whaite (http://whaite.ca)





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