From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 22884@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22884: 25.0.92; C/l mode editing takes waaaayy too long
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:32:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fuw6zlqf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160303231823.GD3822@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:18:23 +0000)
> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:18:23 +0000
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 22884@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> Would it be practicable to mark comments with text properties? Say, a
> property called `comment-depth' which would be either nil (meaning
> currently unknown), 0 (definitely not in a comment), 1 (definitely in a
> comment), 2 (in a nested comment), 3, ...... ? That way we could always
> scan comments in the forwards direction (which is easy) - if we need to
> go backwards over a comment without the property, we can just go back to
> a known point and scan forward.
I don't see any immediate problems with this. But doesn't creating
these properties require to solve the same problem with the specific
cases we are discussing now?
> Or would this just overwhelm the text property mechanism?
No, I don't think it should. Text properties scale reasonably well.
And we already have the same with faces (since comments have a
specific face), don't we?
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 18:08 bug#22884: 25.0.92; C/l mode editing takes waaaayy too long Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 12:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 19:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 21:57 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 22:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 23:44 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-04 14:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-04 20:32 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-04 21:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-13 10:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-08 14:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09 8:25 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-09 9:28 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-09 9:37 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-09 21:30 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-09 10:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09 14:44 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-09 17:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09 17:14 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-03 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 22:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-03 23:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-04 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-04 9:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-15 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-05-08 23:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-13 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-13 20:37 ` Glenn Morris
2016-05-13 21:09 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-28 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
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