From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 57266@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57266: Maintaining the base_line_number cache
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:32:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8rngcsk6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y1vga0l5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:07:18 +0300")
>> > I didn't just mean just_this_one_p thingy, I meant all the changes
>> > that attempt to somehow "clean up" the use of the line-number cache.
>> > Why do we have to do that at all? This stuff is not too complex, and
>> > it works for ages! Isn't the fact that we find more and more small
>> > issues with the changes telling you something?
>>
>> Yes, it's telling me that the code is a mess and I'm trying to fix it by
>> documenting what is actually needed.
>
> It's fine to fix and enhance the documentation, but please don't fix
> the code that works.
If the code doesn't match the doc, then we'll never know if the doc
is wrong.
Stefan
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2022-08-17 21:18 bug#57266: Maintaining the base_line_number cache Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2022-08-17 21:39 ` bug#57266: Acknowledgement (Maintaining the base_line_number cache) Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-18 6:03 ` bug#57266: Maintaining the base_line_number cache Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-22 4:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-22 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-22 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-22 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-22 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-08-22 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-22 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-22 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-22 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-23 14:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-23 14:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-08-23 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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