From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: herring@lanl.gov
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:12:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irdktv7c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38695.128.165.123.18.1172789005.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Thu\, 1 Mar 2007 14\:43\:25 -0800 \(PST\)")
"Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:
> Many objects in Emacs can become "dead", and some of those, once "dead",
> can never be used again, or only used again under special circumstances.
I think such objects are oddities -- they typically work that way
because there's some external resource whose state cannot be revived.
-Miles
--
"Suppose He doesn't give a shit? Suppose there is a God but He
just doesn't give a shit?" [George Carlin]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 21:47 Remove delete-overlay? Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-28 22:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-01 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-01 5:27 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-03-01 9:50 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-01 10:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 12:17 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-03-01 16:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-03-01 22:33 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-02 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 3:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 8:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 22:43 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-03-01 23:12 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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