From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Various simple.el patches Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 21:04:30 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <847k8hiiwx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <200305132031.h4DKVp58013718@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84llx9hhwp.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <20030514124245.GA24487@gnu.org> <843cjhtytp.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <20030514144839.GA6241@gnu.org> <844r3xr0ar.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84fznfzb9t.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84k7co464e.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200305210312.h4L3C4907897@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200305220252.h4M2q9W10068@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200305230352.h4N3qj211239@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <841xyqywtm.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200305231827.h4NIRte11739@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053716745 1339 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 19:05:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 19:05:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 21:05:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JHql-0000JU-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:05:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19JI2d-0005eq-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:17:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JHr9-0000Td-M2 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 15:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JHqo-0000RG-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 15:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JHqm-0000Q9-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 15:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JHql-0000Q2-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 15:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19JHqi-0005HD-00; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from lucy (520080024987-0001@[217.225.230.151]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19JHqT-0KywNcC; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: by lucy (Postfix, from userid 1003) id A2CA427DC9; Fri, 23 May 2003 21:04:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200305231827.h4NIRte11739@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 23 May 2003 13:27:55 -0500 (CDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Sender: 520080024987-0001@t-dialin.net X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14146 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14146 Luc Teirlinck writes: > Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > I vote for including this code in Emacs. Do you want to install it? > > I currently have no write access to the Emacs CVS. I may or may not > want such access depending on exactly how much CVS knowledge is > necessary to commit changes without fear of doing some horrible > stupidities. (I currently know no more CVS than necessary to check > out the CVS from Savannah.) I just come to write Richard about this. Okay. I'm sure someone else can/will commit it. > (Minor question: are the save-excursions necessary? I don't know if > it is desirable to try to minimize them.) > > They are necessary for read-only buffers. Otherwise, you wind up > moving over the same text twice and copying it twice to the kill ring. Ah! Okay, then. As you say, it is much better to just leave in the save-excursion than to make the code more complex. Thanks for the clarification. -- This line is not blank.