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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 40213@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too!
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:01:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1k3sdi-0003R8-3H@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ducgs82.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu,  06 Aug 2020 09:15:41 +0200)

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  > But that would be slow.  The use case here is all the different
  > characters used as markers in a Gnus Summary buffer -- and there may be
  > tens of thousands of them.  Making generation of these buffers (which is
  > already slow) even slower, just to make it possible to these characters
  > for their meaning, would be a disservice to the users.

That might perhaps be slow, but my guess is it won't
take enough time to notice.  Would you like to try it and see?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-07  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24 15:25 bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too! 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-05 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-06  3:44   ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-06  7:15     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-06 23:33       ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-07  7:06         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07  3:01       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-08-07  7:07         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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