From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/widen-less a4ba846: Replace prog-widen with consolidating widen calls Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:48:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20171129233237.27462.23351@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20171129233238.504B5204F1@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <5d668ce5-1482-a3d4-c01b-7d996a532567@yandex.ru> <20171130214621.GA22157@ACM> <27985594-3bb4-ce88-8928-2ccfeac13eae@yandex.ru> <20171201154913.GB3840@ACM> <20171201224504.GH3840@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512258561 589 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2017 23:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 23:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tom@tromey.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, spinuvit@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 03 00:49:15 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHX0-0008BS-04 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 00:49:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHX7-0002TG-Dn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:49:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHWI-0001g9-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHWH-00079F-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHW9-00073Q-Vj; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eLHW9-00029V-9u; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:48:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <20171201224504.GH3840@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 1 Dec 2017 22:45:04 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220636 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] We could add another C-level feature similar to narrowing, specifically for the sake of multiple major modes, if that helps implement them cleanly. Multiple major modes is important enough to justify such a thing. The reason I see that an additional C-level feature MIGHT help is that we could arrange at C level for it to interact in just the right way with ALL uses of the existing narrowing feature. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.