From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 75d9a55: Fix bug 32543 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:34:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180918123203.24597.514@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180918123205.8BE9B204DF@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87bm8u906v.fsf@calancha-pc.dy.bbexcite.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537363981 11058 195.159.176.226 (19 Sep 2018 13:33:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:33:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 15:32:56 2018 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 1g2cbA-0002kJ-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:32:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2cdH-0007Ud-7N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2cdB-0007UD-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2cd8-0002GC-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53038 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2cd7-0002FD-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g2cas-0002MS-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:32:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3b5LVb5RgD3IKBYJQs1R1isGDbU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:229964 Archived-At: >> Hmmm... do you happen to have some intuition about why the buffer was >> saved in a text-property rather than in a buffer-local var? >> It's a really odd choice (less efficient, more work for the coder, with >> various side-problems like "on which char should I put it", etc...). > I think the favourite answer of my ex-boss fits well here: > For historical reasons. Ah, thanks, that explains it. Stefan