From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: forward-comment and syntax-ppss Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 09:42:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83r3576lxs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fd1db0-7362-6117-c5cd-715398c0dea4@gmail.com> <20161207220447.GA4503@acm.fritz.box> <20161208201517.GB3120@acm.fritz.box> <20161209190747.GC2203@acm.fritz.box> <5a70902f-882e-f616-74b2-df6eb81fc70c@yandex.ru> <20161211101715.GA14084@acm.fritz.box> <51c0554f-40d0-37a5-b134-17058343aa3f@yandex.ru> <20161216200630.GB3858@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481960611 24465 195.159.176.226 (17 Dec 2016 07:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 08:43:27 2016 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 1cI9eP-0005RW-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 08:43:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI9eT-0002Jw-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI9eM-0002A6-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI9eI-00044t-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI9eI-00044n-MC; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3353 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cI9eH-0005f9-RC; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:43:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:06 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:210573 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:06 -0500 > Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > The idea is to move the user-facing narrowing commands to some other > > foundation (like the invisible and maybe intangible text properties), > > freeing the narrowing facility for use by the Lisp code. > > While it might be a good direction, it's not as simple as it sounds, > since many uses of the C-x n n command looks like "narrow to the region, > and then apply to the whole buffer": I think it will be tricky > to make overlays that mimick this behavior sufficiently well. Do you have an alternative proposal?