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] widget-field-overlay becomes wrong Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:37:57 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <40E28BE8.4030300@math.ku.dk> <40EF09AA.3010207@math.ku.dk> <40F4DA0F.5000608@math.ku.dk> <410E0468.6070700@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091561903 14560 80.91.224.253 (3 Aug 2004 19:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:38:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: abraham@dina.kvl.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 03 21:38:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bs56z-0003Oq-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:38:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs5AR-00061c-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs5AL-00061O-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs5AK-00061C-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs5AK-000612-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bs56j-0000VP-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:37:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Bs56j-0006Yi-EV; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:37:57 -0400 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <410E0468.6070700@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:07:52 +0200) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26171 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26171 IMO the manual should not bother the reader with unnecessary technical details. Instead it should tell the reader that an editable field is not allowed to be adjacent to a neighbouring widget. That is simpler and leads to sound code. I too think this is the wisest idea, because it is simple to explain. We could add that some cases of this will actually work ok but it would be too much trouble to try to explain which. Where in widget.texi is a good place to say this?