Re: new text property

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

    Stefan> They are mostly orthogonal to font-lock itself and they
    Stefan> are in no way reimplementations of font-lock.

I don't care what they _are_, it's the namespace pollution.  I have to
know a little about everything, and I really really wish "everything"
would shrink and become more rational.  Miles talks a good game about
this new interface helping with both, but there's that nasty backward
compatibility stuff.

Hey, you guys just did it.  So I'm all for Hrvoje's strategy of
listening to the silence of satisfied customers for a while.

    >> Primitive highlighting has at least three interfaces (overlays,
    >> text properties, extents).  This looks like an area ripe for
    >> consolidation, not proliferation, of APIs to me.

    Stefan> `extents' are the consolidation, aren't they ?

Again, I would like to _deprecate_ interfaces, not add them.  We get a
proposal to deprecate our overlay-compatibility library every 3-4
months, and we can't do it because of the agonized screaming from the
package developers.  This font-lock-face thing is definitely an
increase in complexity from my point of view, and the benefit is not
clear (except for GNU Emacs compatibility).


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