From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new text property Date: 10 Jun 2002 15:38:07 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1023607376.8184.1228.camel@space-ghost> <87y9dnycw8.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023691348 26241 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 06:42:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 06:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Colin Walters , emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HIsm-0006p8-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HJFU-0008DY-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:05:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HIsP-0000OK-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HIpO-0008Ei-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17HIob-0006tk-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:38:09 +0900 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (RC0+)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4683 >>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader writes: Miles> Which obstacles are those? If I knew, I'd say. What I do know is that font-lock itself has a minimum of five implementations (font-lock, font-lock-cache, lazy-lock, lazy-shot, and jit-lock). Primitive highlighting has at least three interfaces (overlays, text properties, extents). This looks like an area ripe for consolidation, not proliferation, of APIs to me. I also don't like the idea that semantics apparently depend on whether a reference is an "original" or an "alias". Thus the warning. This may be the right thing to do, but I want to make sure that XEmacs people _discuss_ this change rather than simply adopt it for the sake of compatibility. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py