From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic James Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving markup formats Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:10:01 +0100 Message-ID: <874pl2wfom.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <871wgi9jzb.fsf@jidanni.org> <87odjlwpu1.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir9r1m99.fsf@jurta.org> <87myz2i9tj.fsf@jurta.org> <87r6ocx0tk.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87d4zuyvn6.fsf@gmx.de> <87fy4prmdf.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl8ngp94.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87abuuexfo.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ps3qriao.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182370309 26890 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 20:11:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Oliver Scholz To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 22:11:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I16Wn-0002Fi-AU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I16Wm-00056S-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I16Wj-000560-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I16Wi-000546-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I16Wi-000543-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk ([81.187.188.218] helo=owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I16Wd-00018m-HM; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from nicferrier.tapsellferrier.co.uk ([172.31.50.1] helo=localhost) by owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60 #1 (Debian)) id 1I16RL-00036Z-Mn; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:06:07 +0100 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CAFA7C06EB; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:10:02 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 20 Jun 2007 13\:36\:20 -0400 ") X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73470 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I am against structured data formats for an Emacs buffer because there > is no way to reconcile that cleanly with the Emacs Lisp model of a > buffer as a string of text. I thought about this thoroughly 15 years > ago. I don't *think* I'm talking about a data format in an emacs buffer. I'm talking about using properties to mark the syntax of pieces of text (in an ordinary buffer) as they are described in a word processor schema instance (a document). I think I'm just going to have to knock up an example and see whether it's viable. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk