From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephan Stahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: whitespace.el does not seem to delete its overlays Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:04:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <1176.194.95.226.87.1113134685.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> References: <61435.217.194.34.123.1112967791.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <47420.194.95.226.87.1113033917.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113134981 7139 80.91.229.2 (10 Apr 2005 12:09:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 10 14:09:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKbFg-0005N8-TF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:09:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKapb-0007wX-3H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DKaou-0007DB-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DKaor-0007Bf-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKaor-00077E-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.175.24.27] (helo=ilsa.franken.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DKbCb-0004oH-RW; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 08:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from wwws.franken.de (mail-n.franken.de [193.175.24.27]) by ilsa.franken.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F1FF245C6; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:04:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 194.95.226.87 (SquirrelMail authenticated user eos) by wwws.franken.de with HTTP; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:04:45 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: rms@gnu.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35832 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35832 Richard Stallman said: > It seems that only the last overlay survives. > > That seems to be what the code was designed to do. > > As for what the code SHOULD be trying to do, I am not really > certain. I never use that feature, I was used to the old behavior showing all the "wrong" whitespaces not just the last one. Now whitespace.el does not seem to be that useful anymore. I'll try to find some time to get to know whitespace.el better and change this :-). -- Stephan Stahl