From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Nicolodi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native display of line numbers Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 21:07:32 -0600 Message-ID: <60ef7098-0072-b1f1-b21d-183941c02ff8@grinta.net> References: <83lgoqzm0v.fsf@gnu.org> <32799d7b-6c56-7972-4ed3-4173b7b2d751@grinta.net> <83h8zdxdss.fsf@gnu.org> <6a2b3f2f-8304-2dbf-6ad3-53459e1cb4c9@grinta.net> <83bmpkyag0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497841675 28628 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2017 03:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 03:07:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 19 05:07:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMn2d-00072y-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 05:07:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMn2f-0003nY-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMn2T-0003nS-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMn2P-0002C1-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from zed.grinta.net ([109.74.203.128]:56880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMn2P-0002BU-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2017 23:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from black.local (c-98-245-165-154.hsd1.co.comcast.net [98.245.165.154]) (Authenticated sender: daniele) by zed.grinta.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4D57FE1A59 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 03:07:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=grinta.net; s=mail; t=1497841655; bh=W2xw3WZhyxpyHvCONv7HZMhNaU6I0gFvbTjiY5uCabM=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=p0crQpu/rBuM5q/f9ywsVVD/GFrL47tEczY7XKZrqx0iCviYrs6WBZNSTUIZNWxmp fy3cM73Eltl/vMHiFm0510G7nrYlvskUpisxwgcMAnMl+fV/SxfR0rozDIpr+WoA1r CmRI28hzzGVtJj/CImmC2uMDVANxucf8anuBL8wU= In-Reply-To: <83bmpkyag0.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 109.74.203.128 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215767 Archived-At: On 18/06/17 20:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Daniele Nicolodi >> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 14:48:41 -0600 >> >>> Evidently, this impression was based on some misunderstanding. New >>> Emacs features are coded in C all the time, e.g. see the recently >>> added command replace-buffer-contents. >> >> Evidently, I was under the impression that the portable dumper idea was >> rejected mainly on the base that it is coded in C while a possible >> solution exists taht can be implemented in elisp. > > Dumping is not just any optional feature, it's a feature without which > Emacs cannot be built, so there are additional considerations in that > case. Just to be sure: are you saying that functionality can be implemented in the Emacs C core as long as this is an optional and not essential? Cheers, Daniele