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Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: Should overlays evaporate by default? |
Date: |
Fri, 13 May 2005 10:17:42 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > It occur to me that we could make it easier to find those places.
> > Suppose that by default the `evaporate' property is set to
> `display-warning'.
> > Suppose that in this case, when the overlay becomes empty, it evaporates
> > and displays a warning using `display-warning'.
>
> We can do that immediately AFTER the release.
>
> Why would it be better then than now?
> No matter when we do it, it will cause some programs
> to issue these warnings. People will have to report them
> so we can fix them. The natural time to do that will be
> in pretesting. We will soon (I hope) do pretesting.
We do "pretesting" all the time with CVS emacs -- there are
many ordinary users using it already for everyday work.
> Why postpone this till the pretest of the subsequent version?
Because it will delay releasing 22.x.
>
> If this were a new feature, I would say let's put it off.
> But it is not a feature but a way of finding bugs, such as
> the bug that Bob and others tracked down with so much effort
> and time.
It is not a new feature, and so the bugs it causes are not
new either -- if we hope to fix every possible bug before
releasing 22.x, it will never be ready!
> This change would involve some work. We would have to
> check all 136 or so calls to make-overlay or its synonyms
> in the Emacs sources, and change each of them to DTRT
> with the overlay property. That's a substantial job
> and maybe nobody wants to do it.
I don't have time.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
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