From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ortmann@isl.net: asymmetries and contradictions in shell navigation using C-a and C-e on a prompt line] Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:11:08 -0700 (MST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203200511.g2K5B8609602@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200201210941.g0L9f9s14343@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203182007.g2IK7VK08811@wijiji.santafe.edu> <87u1rd8l6f.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016676892 28866 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 02:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ns6O-0007VT-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:14:52 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nsCN-00031B-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:21:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16np8p-0006Fj-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:05:11 -0500 Original-Received: from delysid.gnu.org ([158.121.106.20]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nosE-0002XV-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by delysid.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 16nYUj-00035y-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2K5BCa06679; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:11:12 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g2K5B8609602; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:11:08 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87u1rd8l6f.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 19 Mar 2002 09:18:16 +0900) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2077 > That part bothers me. Can we assign a coherent meaning to a field > property on an empty overlay? Well, input fields can be zero-width, so it sems like emacs has to be able to do _something_ for that case. It could do so using the same rules it uses for field boundaries (which are also ambiguous, because you have You may as well give it a try if you want. However, I think that this is likely to result in very little improvement for a lot of work. With the same amount of work you could do one of the highest priority tasks in the task list. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel