From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overlay mechanic improvements
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:48:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XVozc-0003d5-NX@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppepne6d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:14:50 +0200)
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Supporting after/before_string with text properties would be
really weird as inserting text in the middle of some text with the
respective properties would cause those strings to appear ex nihilo.
That is true -- but does it matter, given that inserting text there is
a mistake anyway?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-21 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 14:59 Overlay mechanic improvements Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-19 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-20 13:19 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 13:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 13:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 13:52 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 22:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-22 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-22 23:50 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-23 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 16:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 21:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2014-09-21 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-23 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-23 19:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 23:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-29 5:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-29 20:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-30 1:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 8:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-30 10:35 ` Rasmus
2014-09-30 14:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 16:20 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-30 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-30 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-02 16:12 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-09-30 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 3:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-01 12:53 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-01 13:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-02 1:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-09-30 5:52 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-06 19:14 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-06 21:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-21 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 21:48 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-22 0:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-22 23:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-20 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 13:36 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-19 18:03 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 8:08 ` Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-20 13:21 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 16:28 ` Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 13:21 ` Tokenizing Richard Stallman
2014-09-20 16:24 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 16:40 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-20 20:16 ` Tokenizing Eric Ludlam
2014-09-20 20:35 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-21 15:13 ` parsing (was tokenizing) Stephen Leake
2014-09-20 16:36 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-20 19:55 ` Tokenizing Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 15:35 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-21 16:43 ` Tokenizing Stefan Monnier
2014-09-22 14:05 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-21 13:35 ` Tokenizing Richard Stallman
2014-09-21 14:24 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-21 15:32 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-21 16:42 ` Tokenizing Stefan Monnier
2014-09-21 18:55 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-21 22:01 ` Tokenizing Daniel Colascione
2014-09-22 10:21 ` Tokenizing Vladimir Kazanov
2014-09-22 13:55 ` Tokenizing Daniel Colascione
2014-09-22 14:02 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
2014-09-22 14:14 ` Tokenizing Daniel Colascione
2014-09-22 13:15 ` Tokenizing Stephen Leake
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