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: Uninformative comment in files.el Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <475EF93E.3060203@ig.com.br> <475F0992.2030307@gmx.at> <475F45EB.2070704@ig.com.br> <87mysg1l17.fsf@actcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197565574 15938 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2007 17:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yoni-r@actcom.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 13 18:06:21 2007 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 1J2rUk-0003V2-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:05:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2rUS-0004ie-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2rQa-0002Nc-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2rQY-0002L2-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2rQW-0002Kp-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:48 -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 1J2rQS-00022m-3b; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:44 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CABz0YEdMCpLM/2dsb2JhbACqPg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,162,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="11359964" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 13 Dec 2007 12:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.146.204]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id SDN68743; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 422A17FA1; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:42 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:51:46 -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:85134 Archived-At: > Your change will cause problems for the other category of minor-mode > like packages: those that need their overlays to survive a revert-buffer. > I don't think that's true. Any package that depends on overlays to > correctly survive reverting won't work anyway. Reverting the buffer > will move the overlay bounds out, at least to cover all the changed > text in the file. That would break them. Maybe it would. Or maybe the package knows how to deal with that (it wants the overlay to cover the whole buffer, for instance, and sets the marker's advance-after property appropriately) or it just needs to keep the overlay-buffer info to know in which buffer is the overlay. Stefan