From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: buffer-substring-filter Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <33102.203.116.59.24.1110846598.squirrel@203.116.59.24> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110990788 10795 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 16:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 17:33:08 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbIm-0004th-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:23:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbYt-00019t-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbXj-0000yd-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbXY-0000t3-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBbXX-0000sU-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DBbHy-0003fa-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DBbHx-000498-T5; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:29 -0500 Original-To: "Chong Yidong" In-reply-to: <33102.203.116.59.24.1110846598.squirrel@203.116.59.24> (cyd@stupidchicken.com) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34633 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34633 > Using mapcar is a little wasteful, since it makes a list of the results > only to throw them all away. Better to use dolist. > > It would be good to move point to BEG, temporarily, > so that the functions can tell where the text came from > in case they care. Yes, true. > However, the real question is whether this is the right feature > for doing the job. Have you changed longlines.el to use it? > Does it do what longlines needs? Yes, I have changed longlines.el to use it, and I have confirmed that it does what I need. In that case, could you make those two little changes, and then would someone please install it?