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: Patch: Syntax and Hard Newlines Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <455F19FC.6@gmx.at> <87wt5svkz1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <45603BEB.6050006@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164067099 9885 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 23:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, herberteuler@hotmail.com, miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 00:58:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmJ1d-0000G7-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:58:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmJ1d-0004So-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmJ1R-0004Q6-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmJ1Q-0004O3-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmJ1Q-0004Nw-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmJ1Q-0001OK-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GmJ1O-0007ux-Cs; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:54 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:04:26 -0500) 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:62580 Archived-At: > It is impossible for anything like Longlines mode to do that. > That would require a feature implemented entirely within redisplay. Actually, applying a `display' property of "\n" on some spaces, using overlays that also have a `window' property would make it possible. Maybe impractical, tho ;-) This would have the disadvantages that I described before, for doing this in redisplay: editing commands would treat those apparent line-breaks like spaces.