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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it.
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 05:30:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mug4lg9y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190819192829.GB30372@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon,  19 Aug 2019 19:28:29 +0000)

> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:28:29 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > So how exactly is your implementation different in this regard, and
> > why did you need any new code for it?
> 
> The patch I proposed would have allowed the overlay arrow's mechanism to
> be used to _insert_ "=>" before column zero on a line (rather than
> overwriting the first two characters).

So your original patch does move the line's characters to the right,
is that true?

> The general feeling in this thread is that I should rethink this patch,
> instead using before-string overlay properties.  This would enable me to
> close bug #36832 (The one about not wanting to scroll the compilation
> mode buffer on typing CR) satisfactorally.
> 
> I intend to do this in the coming days.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-20  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-18 13:48 [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 16:15   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 16:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 18:43       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 18:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 19:23           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-19  2:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-19 19:28               ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-20  2:30                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-18 19:30         ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-18 19:43           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-19  9:30         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-19 14:46           ` Eli Zaretskii

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