From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay insertion types, markers, etc. Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:15:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <<<20c74b83-6272-44e9-b4ac-829fd4cd0143@default>>> <<<83lfsh2zvf.fsf@gnu.org>>> <> <<83v9rl12t1.fsf@gnu.org>> <6dfab4eb-3701-40bb-80f1-942edd375295@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="161374"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 17 03:15:21 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iWA5w-000frY-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2019 03:15:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWA5v-00042w-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:15:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWA5o-00042X-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWA5o-0006sW-F8; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iWA5m-0004Q6-TS; Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:15:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6dfab4eb-3701-40bb-80f1-942edd375295@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:32:29 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:242267 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. ]]] > > The design was by Richard, so he is the only one who might remember > > why he didn't go beyond what we have. > Ccing Richard, in case he might want to add something. I have not been following this thread. What are the changes people propose? It is possible that the answer is simple -- that I didn't see a need to do the work to add any other features in that area. But unless I know what is proposed, I can't know the answer. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)