From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should invisible imply intangible? Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <200203042341.g24Nffq00590@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200202232019.g1NKJoG14638@aztec.santafe.edu> <200202250510.g1P5A3714156@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200202262013.g1QKDef16683@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203010130.g211UDG05790@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200203031440.g23EeN200619@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203031711.g23HBI623254@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015285851 24057 195.204.10.66 (4 Mar 2002 23:50:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Mar 2002 23:50:51 GMT Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16i2EF-0006Fv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 00:50:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16i27v-0007vW-00; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16i25O-0007ce-00; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:41:42 -0500 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g24Nfou26650; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:41:50 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g24Nffq00590; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-reply-to: <200203031711.g23HBI623254@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1728 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1728 > Also, as David Kastrup has mentioned repeatedly, intangible text tends > to break lots of things... > > I don't think so. Please, Richard, try to remember the lengthy discussion we've had about that. You seem to agree with my conclusion: In practice, it's generally a non-issue because most uses of intangible text are restricted to a particular context so that this intangible text is only accessed by a small body of elisp code. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel