From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlays category - could this be made buffer local? Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:12:43 +0100 Message-ID: <478FD2DB.2060805@gmail.com> References: <478FCE25.1030009@gmail.com> <87zlv45coc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200608028 3977 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2008 22:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 17 23:14:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFczu-0005Kh-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:14:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFczV-0005Sj-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFcyj-0005AY-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:12:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFcyg-000597-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:12:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFcyg-00058z-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:12:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFcyc-00008l-Ic; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:64551 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JFcya-0005Xh-7y; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:12:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87zlv45coc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080116-1, 2008-01-16), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JFcya-0005Xh-7y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JFcya-0005Xh-7y 1aaa64b7bedff262caaecfeb44fa2c8e X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:87037 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >> If OVERLAY does not record any value for that >> property, but it does have a `category' property which is a >> symbol, that symbol's PROP property is used. Otherwise, the value >> is `nil'. >> >> If 'category where allowed to be a symbol then buffer local values could >> be set. > > `category' is already a symbol. I presume you're saying, "if the user > were able to specify a custom forwarding symbol to use instead of > `category', then ..." Sorry, I meant "to be a variable containing a symbol". Would that be any problem? > I'm not sure it's a good idea though, as in many cases overlay lookups > are implicit, so there's no easy/clean way to specify what symbol to use > (instead of `category'). > > -Miles >