From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in forward-visible-line: Patch Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:48:26 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200305220443.h4M4h4w10124@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200305221256.h4MCuhjv003998@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200305222140.h4MLe9r10843@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053730950 18979 80.91.224.249 (23 May 2003 23:02:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 23:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 24 01:02:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19JLXR-0004rm-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 01:01:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19JLjO-00086G-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 01:13:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JLVt-0000nR-0r for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JLUO-0000Ks-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19JLOc-00064Q-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19JLKs-0003vc-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19JLKs-0002rp-IJ; Fri, 23 May 2003 18:48:26 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on 23 May 2003 17:54:13 +0900) Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14168 BTW, one problem with the name `visiblep' is that it could be confused to mean the same thing as `pos-visible-in-window-p'. OTOH, I don't think I don't think `invisiblep' has this problem, since the term of `invisible' in emacs is strongly associated with the invisible property. I agree. In addition, text is normally visible, and most text is visible, so invisibility is an unusual situation. That is another reason why invisiblep is a better function to install. I think this function is worth writing in C for speed. Also, parts of it already exist in C, ISTR.