From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-only overlays Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4795169E.5060704@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201139579 28228 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2008 01:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd?= To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 24 02:53:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHrHB-0001Ks-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:53:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrGk-0007G9-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrGh-0007Dz-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrGf-0007CD-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrGf-0007CA-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHrGb-0006XH-Ob; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:33 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CANJ9l0fO+IHadGdsb2JhbACQHgEwnXl+ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,241,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="13147725" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 23 Jan 2008 20:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.129.218]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ECY10132; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:32 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A559781FA; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:52:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:41:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87421 Archived-At: > It is no accident that read-only works only as a text property. > It is tested for in textprop.c only as a text property. > I am not sure that a read-only property on an overlay makes much sense. > It is a strange thing to do. So I will fix the documentation. I don't understand why the `read-only' property would be more strange on an overlay that on a text-property. Stefan