Re: New hook before-region-change-functions wanted

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

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On 10.09.2017 04:44, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>    > > That kind of hook is pandora's box.  It is too powerful, and would
>    > > interact in complex ways.  There will be many cases that are hard to
>    > > implement correctly, or cause trouble.  To implement this probably
>    > > means future hassles for ourselves and for package developers.
>
>    > I actually implemented it, and it worked as intended.
>
> I think you mean it works as intended in your use case.  I am talking
> about something else.
>
> My experience says that this kind of feature is likely to fail in
> various peculiar cases, which would make it a maintenance burder.
> Also, it is likely to show show strange confusing behavior which would
> lead to trouble in debugging.  We are better off without it.
>
> The other approach has the virtue of being entirely internal.  It will
> not require an announcement, or adding to the Lisp manual.
>


+1, likewise a related earlier message.


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