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Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining]


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Unbalanced change hooks (part 2) [Documentation fix still remaining]
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:39:35 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> I think to really avoid the complexity for mode authors, b-c-f and a-c-f
> need to not only balance, but also to be consistent. At the moment, they
> are not that either -- they can signal different locations for a given
> change.

I think "balanced + a guarantee that a-c-f covers a subset of b-c-f" is
sufficient, since you can then trivially extend a-c-f's subset to the
corresponding "identical" locations if you need it.

AFAIK we do have the "a-c-f covers a subset of b-c-f" property,
right now (modulo bugs, of course).


        Stefan




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