From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:52:19 +0100 Message-ID: <871to4bngc.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <20141211092138.6D5F6C008E@snark.thyrsus.com> <87y4qcj2mq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87mw6sdetf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tx10iya1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87iohgdarf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418417575 15986 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 20:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:52:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 21:52:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzXCh-0005nc-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzXCh-0004vg-0Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzXCZ-0004vU-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzXCS-0004j3-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34877) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzXCS-0004ih-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzXCR-0005H6-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:52:31 +0100 Original-Received: from 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es ([85.55.19.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:52:31 +0100 Original-Received: from oub by 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:52:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es Mail-Copies-To: never X-Hashcash: 1:20:141212:gmane.emacs.devel::8+IPyXS2BIRz+DXl:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000vlb User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) XEmacs/21.5-b33 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tf7YJsLZkMriDHlMkrIxdydGo/I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179962 Archived-At: > Uwe Brauer writes: > Well, it was the inspiration for preview-latex's "never touch the buffer > text" philosophy. In a way X-symbol is faster than preview-latex and works even on incorrect latex syntax it works even in email buffers[1] > It would be interesting to redo X-Symbol with text overlays rather > than actual text replacements, but it could trigger performance > problems. X-symbol suffers, for large files, already performance problems. And yes I wholeheartedly agree that it is a pity that x-symbol is basically dead for a decade. I wish I could understand the code (and maintain it), but I can't .... Ok that gets off topic somehow > Ok. Footnotes: [1] although org-mime-htmlize has replaced this feature in a more satisfactory way