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From: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>
To: "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, david.reitter@gmail.com,
	Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	"Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	raman@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: line-move-visual never set to nil?
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:16:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6161f3180808010316m7c3a78f5v1a63ec8f99e227bc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6995zq2.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think this case is special. The special thing is the relation between
>> the visual move and the buffer point. That relation changes according to
>> something that is rather unrelated with the buffer contents but can
>> easily be changed by the user. That makes the relation very volatile.
>
> Not really, given that (1) window-width changes quite rarely,

Not always :-(
While intentional changing of the frame size is rare indeed, they may
be changed just because of bug.

See "Shrinking frames as of past month" thread for example.
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg01851.html)

> and (2) most macros are used immediately (in the same buffer/window) and
> then discarded (or rather, forgotten about).
>
> Anyway, what you're suggesting seems every bit as bad, or worse, than
> the problem it's purporting to solve -- without, as far as I can see,
> any actual evidence that there _is_ a problem (have we gotten any bug
> reports?).

-- 
Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-26 17:43 line-move-visual never set to nil? T. V. Raman
2008-07-26 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-26 18:40   ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2008-07-26 18:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-26 18:48   ` David Reitter
2008-07-26 18:57 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-26 19:38   ` T. V. Raman
2008-07-26 19:41     ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-27 18:46   ` David Reitter
2008-07-27 20:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-27 21:08       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-28  0:23         ` T. V. Raman
2008-07-29  7:43       ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-07-29 14:34         ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-29 14:43           ` Lennart Borgman
2008-07-29 16:27           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-29 18:31             ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-29 18:37               ` David Reitter
2008-07-29 19:18                 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-29 19:23                   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-29 19:59                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-29 21:23                   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-30  0:31                 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-30  0:42                   ` David Reitter
2008-07-30  3:46           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-30  4:43             ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-30  4:56               ` Miles Bader
2008-07-30  7:59               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-31 17:24             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-31 23:34               ` Miles Bader
2008-07-31 23:38                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  0:25                   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01  0:27                     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01  0:29                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  0:58                       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01  1:01                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  1:49                           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-08-01  8:43                             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 18:19                           ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-01 19:06                             ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-01 19:29                               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  0:33                   ` Miles Bader
2008-08-01  0:37                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  0:46                       ` Miles Bader
2008-08-01  0:50                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01 10:16                         ` Andrew W. Nosenko [this message]
2008-08-01  4:43               ` Richard M Stallman

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