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From: "Chong Yidong" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:23:29 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1421.220.255.169.59.1110594209.squirrel@220.255.169.59> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31xalolyz.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>

>> Sorry, I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand how this
>> would work. Since each function would only be modifying their own local
>> STRING variable, not the one that will actually be killed...
>
> It doesn't have to modify the variable `string', but its string value,
> e.g.
>
> (defun x (s)
>   (aset s 1 ?-))
> (let ((s "abc"))
>   (x s)
>   s)
> => "a-c"

But this method restricts the possible manipulations to those that keep
the string length unchanged.  That is fine for longlines, which is just
swapping spaces and newlines, but it may not be very useful for other
(hypothetical) purposes.  Even for longlines, aset would be very
inconvenient to use.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-12  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-02  2:26 (no subject) Chong Yidong
2005-03-02  3:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-02  3:26   ` require-hard-newlines to use newline Chong Yidong
2005-03-02  3:55     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-03  2:29     ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03  2:49       ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-03 20:57         ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 22:32           ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-04  0:33             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-04  0:56               ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-04  1:40                 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-04  6:02                   ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-04  9:55                     ` David Kastrup
2005-03-04 23:46                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-08  0:05                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08  2:10                       ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-08  3:09                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08  4:28                         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08 15:45                           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08 16:42                             ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-08 18:04                               ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-08 18:12                                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08 19:02                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-08 18:26                                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08 16:03                       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-08 16:39                         ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-09  9:45                           ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11  1:46                           ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-11  9:10                             ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11 10:25                               ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-11 13:03                                 ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11 14:32                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-11 14:57                                     ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-11 15:08                                       ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11 15:28                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-11 15:13                                       ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11 15:30                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-11 16:11                                         ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11 17:32                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-12  2:40                                             ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-11 22:29                                           ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-12  2:23                                             ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2005-03-12 22:16                                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-12 23:53                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-14  3:00                                       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-13  6:14                                     ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-14  3:00                                       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-14  3:42                                         ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-15 18:39                                           ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-12 22:16                               ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-04 23:45             ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-05  2:03               ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-06  0:41                 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-06  2:18 Chong Yidong
2005-03-07  5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-07 10:45   ` Oliver Scholz
2005-03-08  0:50     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08  1:43       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-08  2:52     ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-08  1:31   ` Luc Teirlinck

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