From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new text property Date: 12 Jun 2002 17:16:39 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1o8oqs8.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1023607376.8184.1228.camel@space-ghost> <87adq3jp5y.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1023735066.26240.14.camel@space-ghost> <1023824830.26240.84.camel@space-ghost> <877kl5pabc.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1023851495.26240.100.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023869922 9980 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2002 08:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17I3L0-0002ar-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17I3ii-000888-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17I3KV-0002KD-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 04:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17I3Jp-0002JU-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 04:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17I3J2-0000Bq-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:16:40 +0900 Original-To: Colin Walters In-Reply-To: <1023851495.26240.100.camel@space-ghost> Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (RC0+)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4782 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4782 >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters writes: Colin> But recreating the buffer is a bad way to solve this Colin> problem. You said "recreate", not me. Whatever the right thing is, if you can do it in Lisp, you can automate it through a behavior. Hopefully more intuitively than just creating a random `sjt:foo-dwim' function, but we'll see as we use them. Colin> One thing that bugs me about using behaviors for this is Colin> that you still have to hunt down a `foo-highlight', Colin> `foo-fontify', `foo-enable-fontification', etc. variable to Colin> set in the first place. The person who implements the behavior does. But this is always a problem when you abstract independently developed mechanisms. >> grep for "ben wing + behavior" in xemacs-beta, xemacs-design, >> xemacs-patches: http://list-archive.xemacs.org/$LIST_NAME Colin> I got no results: *sigh* Somebody's working on the search engines, but the mailing list engine is still substandard. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py