From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay mechanic improvements Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:14:50 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ppepne6d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <871tr6qup8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411321540 3001 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2014 17:45:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:45:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 21 19:45:32 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 1XVlCV-0006TO-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:45:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVlCU-0004ZZ-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVlCL-0004ZM-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVlCF-0001IB-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVlCF-0001DI-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XVjmx-0005KI-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:15:03 +0200 Original-Received: from x2f44b16.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.75.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:15:03 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by x2f44b16.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:15:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f44b16.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nip6LPxyQQvR3C4wGKuqNWyp1WI= 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:174616 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Why aren't text properties right for [preview-latex]? > > There are various things which are difficult to do with text-properties. > E.g. the lack of after/before_string is the most obvious difference. Uh, that too. preview-latex makes use of them as well for several things. Supporting after/before_string with text properties would be really weird as inserting text in the middle of some text with the respective properties would cause those strings to appear ex nihilo. -- David Kastrup