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: Should overlays evaporate by default? Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:21:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200505161459.j4GExamZ005296@brains.moreideas.ca> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116369519 25005 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2005 22:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 00:38:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYAgx-0002u1-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 00:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYAh0-0000U3-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 18:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXxDA-0006gW-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 04:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXucO-0004rd-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 01:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXnOG-0001EJ-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 17:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DXn9h-0008L9-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 17:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DXn1d-0000tQ-BH; Mon, 16 May 2005 17:21:21 -0400 Original-To: Peter Whaite In-reply-to: <200505161459.j4GExamZ005296@brains.moreideas.ca> (message from Peter Whaite on Mon, 16 May 2005 10:59:36 -0400) 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:37201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37201 I thought I would quickly try it out, but all the overlay defuns are in C code and it would require a fair bit of effort on my part to become familiar with the C mechanisms (how to set, get properties, invoke other defuns, etc.), and I dont have that much time. If you want to try out such patches, I suppose someone here would be willing to write the patches for you to try.