From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 22 branch created. Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:27:23 +0300 Message-ID: References: <871wi9jw37.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <462E7B94.3000008@gnu.org> <462F0A07.50104@gnu.org> <864pn4an8j.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86zm4w97du.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070425195026.GA19472@printf.se> <20070427133832.22F374DD5F@rocksteady.printf.se> <87hcr1m0a4.fsf@ambire.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177748860 18319 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2007 08:27:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: henrik.enberg@telia.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 10:27:38 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 1HhiHJ-0003zT-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:27:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhiNF-0005Co-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:33:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhiNB-0005Cj-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HhiN8-0005BH-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhiN8-0005Ar-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HhiHA-0002Xn-LC; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-2-99.inter.net.il [83.130.2.99]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HSF43880 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:27:23 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hcr1m0a4.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:21:55 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:70315 Archived-At: > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , henrik.enberg@telia.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:21:55 +0200 > > how about displaying the decoded message in the current buffer as an > overlay of the (undecoded) text? overlays do not get saved, > normally, and can be made to show the decoded message. I expect such a bizarre design to have unintended consequences. For starters, Emacs doesn't behave well when there are lots of overlays (because overlays disable many display optimizations, so redisplay becomes intolerably slow). Also, what will the normal kill/yank operations do when the text you want to copy to the kill ring is in an overlay?