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: highlight-changes-mode Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:03:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <17721.60660.980363.609046@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17725.23383.490888.442550@cube.homenetwork> <17770.17915.319182.723314@cube.homenetwork> <17770.35080.725821.391914@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17782.25188.121126.54191@cube.homenetwork> <17783.21694.919909.627629@cube.homenetwork> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165525479 10325 80.91.229.10 (7 Dec 2006 21:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rsharman@pobox.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 22:04:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsQPz-0003wp-93 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:04:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsQPy-00062y-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GsQOc-0004l4-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:03:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GsQOc-0004jw-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsQOc-0004jp-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GsQOb-0005yw-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:03:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1GsQOZ-00018t-Na; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:03:07 -0500 Original-To: rsharman@pobox.com In-reply-to: <17783.21694.919909.627629@cube.homenetwork> (rsharman@pobox.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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63427 Archived-At: The current implementation allows the situation where a user no longer wants it turned on by default, but has an existing buffer that has some changes already highlighted. If disabling the global mode automatically disables highlight changes modes in that buffer, then the highlighting of the changes disappears; we have lost information. That is clearly true. The question is whether this is a useful feature that we want, or whether it is better to make this mode like the others.