From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Walters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: 07 Apr 2002 00:32:47 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1018157567.1186.15.camel@space-ghost> References: <87ofh09xjq.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200204050602.g3562Dl18586@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bscx7rlf.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200204061732.g36HWSb19584@aztec.santafe.edu> <87k7rkmuk0.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <87zo0gbfb2.fsf@emacswiki.org> <1018138376.27236.49.camel@space-ghost> <87bscwe36t.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <874rio5ide.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <1018154686.1186.13.camel@space-ghost> <87ofgwcdgm.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018158224 11084 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2002 05:43:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 05:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16u5Sq-0002sf-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 07:43:44 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16u5gd-00046p-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 07:57:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16u5RE-0006wy-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 00:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from monk.debian.net ([216.185.54.61] helo=monk.verbum.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16u5PI-0006nh-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 00:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from space-ghost.verbum.private (freedom.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.60.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "space-ghost.verbum.org", Issuer "monk.verbum.org" (verified OK)) by monk.verbum.org (Postfix (Debian/GNU)) with ESMTP id 9E29F740009E for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:40:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by space-ghost.verbum.private (Postfix (Debian/GNU), from userid 1000) id C926882F9B7; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:32:48 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87ofgwcdgm.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2442 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2442 On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 23:58, Miles Bader wrote: > Colin Walters writes: > > If we had extents, the right way to solve that problem, in my opinion, > > would be to add another extent with a higher priority face, and another > > property like 'temporary t. Then, you could search for all extents with > > a 'temporary property, and delete them. > > Um, you can do exactly the same thing with overlays. I agree. My point is that in this case overlays aren't being used for their primary purpose: specificity to the current buffer. What I am trying to show is that the distinction between text properties and overlays is arbitrary. Or at least it certainly has been in my experience.