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: Several serious problems Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:16:55 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208101716.g7AHGtB05965@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200207221711.g6MHBZo02496@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207231335.WAA25692@etlken.m17n.org> <200207240325.g6O3PdX04898@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207240437.NAA26632@etlken.m17n.org> <200208090744.g797irF11925@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028999895 610 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2002 17:18:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@etl.go.jp, spiegel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17dZsU-00009j-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:18:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17daFd-0002K3-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:42:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17dZtH-0003zN-00; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17dZrJ-0003V0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17dZrG-0003Tx-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17dZrF-0003Ta-00; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7AHHB517843; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:17:11 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7AHGtB05965; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:16:55 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-Reply-To: <200208090744.g797irF11925@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: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6428 > If the specified coding system is totally inappropriate for > the buffer, highlighting them will results in huge amount of > overlays and also it takes long time to finish the job. If That was also my concern, but I heard that Emacs-20 did just that. If empirically it works well enough, there's no reason to object. Did anyone ever try this in Emacs 20 on a substantial file with many unsuitable characters? If not, would you like to try that now and see how bad it was?