From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Uninformative comment in files.el Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:43:37 +0900 Message-ID: <87wsrftic6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <475EF93E.3060203@ig.com.br> <475F0992.2030307@gmx.at> <475F45EB.2070704@ig.com.br> <87mysg1l17.fsf@actcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197789713 29185 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2007 07:21:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yoni-r@actcom.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 16 08:22:04 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 1J3np4-0005ov-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:22:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3noh-00012S-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:21:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J3n0N-00070P-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:29:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J3n0L-0006yO-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:29:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3n0L-0006y1-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J3kMO-0007aU-CD; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:40:12 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7817FFA; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:40:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9055E1A2E12; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:43:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070621) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:85176 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Or maybe the package [...] wants the overlay to cover the > whole buffer, for instance, > > [That is a] pretty silly [way] to use an overlay. I won't say it > is inconceivable that any package does this, but I think it is not > sufficient reason to forego fixing this problem. Well, one (and possibly more) whole-buffer overlay(s) is a consequence of an obvious strategy to implement a top-down parser. Ie, wrap each non-terminal parsed with an overlay to carry annotations as you return from recursive levels. At least, it was obvious to me when I did it.