From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too! Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:01:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87v9mtn5as.5.fsf@jidanni.org> <877dud9uzh.fsf@gnus.org> <877ducgs82.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3522"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 40213@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 05:03:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sfD-0000iQ-Ba for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2020 05:03:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sfB-0007O2-PG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sf5-0007No-17 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k3ses-0007FI-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k3ser-0005zI-SF; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:03:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40213 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,gnus X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 40213-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40213.159676932222946 (code B ref 40213); Fri, 07 Aug 2020 03:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40213) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2020 03:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55331 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sdu-0005y2-2y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35644) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sdr-0005xY-GR for 40213@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sdl-0006mp-EZ; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k3sdi-0003R8-3H; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:01:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877ducgs82.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:15:41 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:184223 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)