Re: master 370d403: Explain in the manual how to make `cursor-intangible' work

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Agreed.  But I think your code example just makes it seem like the
> current behavior is just wrong, whereas the problem is that it
> implements something a bit different from what the OP wanted.

I don't really see how the example makes it seem that the current
behaviour is wrong.  It just demonstrates the (non-obvious) effect that
rear-nonsticky has here.

> So I think we should better explain our meaning of "intangible" and then
> explain how it might relate to a notion of "atomicity" (and how to get
> that when you want it).

Sounds a bit academic to me.

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