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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /* FIXME: Call signal_after_change!  */ in callproc.c.  Well, why not?
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:23:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveewn6r27.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191229133436.GA10699@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 29 Dec 2019 13:34:36 +0000")

> Besides, the Elisp manual page "Change Hooks" only describes one
> situation for unbalanced calls.  This is one large enclosing before-
> followed by a sequence of smaller after-s.

That's right.  And the sequence can be empty.

>> Again, I don't see why this could cause any trouble.  Inserting an
>> empty string is not an outlandish situation, and any modification hook
>> must be prepared to (trivially) deal with it.
> This may be true, but I wouldn't bet anything on it being true for all
> existing hooks.

It's probably harmless to run the after change hook for such
a non-change, but it should never be necessary.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-29 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-21 17:23 /* FIXME: Call signal_after_change! */ in callproc.c. Well, why not? Alan Mackenzie
2019-12-21 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-21 21:47   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-12-22 18:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-24  9:47       ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-12-24 12:51         ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-12-24 15:58           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-24 15:47         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-29 13:34           ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-12-29 16:23             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-01-03  8:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-04 22:47               ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-01-05 18:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-05 18:48                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-01-21 20:34                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-01-22  3:27                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-22 20:05                         ` Alan Mackenzie

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