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: whitespace.el does not seem to delete its overlays Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:55:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <61435.217.194.34.123.1112967791.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <47420.194.95.226.87.1113033917.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113098165 5058 80.91.229.2 (10 Apr 2005 01:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 10 03:56:04 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKRfJ-0007QR-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:55:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKRF7-0004yB-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DKRDx-0004Ve-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:26:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DKRDu-0004TG-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DKRDt-0004Sg-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:26:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DKRgx-0001p8-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DKRfA-0005Xd-Kl; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:55:00 -0400 Original-To: "Stephan Stahl" In-reply-to: <47420.194.95.226.87.1113033917.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> (stahl@eos.franken.de) 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:35821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35821 It seems that only the last overlay survives. That seems to be what the code was designed to do. As for what the code SHOULD be trying to do, I am not really certain. I never use that feature,