From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: narrow-to-here-document
Date: 30 Jun 2003 19:19:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5isqniitw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84r85cw0rk.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> I've been wondering if a workable alternative would be to make the
> point motion functions look at a variable. If the variable is set,
> they ignore text with a certain property.
>
> Suppose that we set the (hypothetical) text property `language' to
> `c' on all the C bits, and then we let-bind the variable to the value
> `c'. Then all point motion commands would skip all text where the
> text property language is not set to c. So backward-char, for
> example, would skip all that text.
The intangible property does this sort of skipping, but it would be
pretty dangerous to fool around with this when one has code not
tailored for it: it is a reasonable assumption when programming that
(1- (point)) and (save-excursion (backward-char) (point)) are the
same thing, basically.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-20 13:59 narrow-to-here-document Masatake YAMATO
2003-06-20 14:10 ` narrow-to-here-document Ilya Zakharevich
2003-06-20 16:26 ` narrow-to-here-document Masatake YAMATO
2003-06-21 7:15 ` narrow-to-here-document Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-06-21 8:01 ` narrow-to-here-document David Kastrup
2003-06-21 14:19 ` narrow-to-here-document Ilya Zakharevich
2003-06-21 14:48 ` narrow-to-here-document David Kastrup
2003-06-22 8:33 ` narrow-to-here-document Ilya Zakharevich
2003-06-23 17:10 ` narrow-to-here-document Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-25 6:10 ` narrow-to-here-document Masatake YAMATO
2003-06-25 8:04 ` narrow-to-here-document David Kastrup
2003-06-25 8:21 ` narrow-to-here-document Masatake YAMATO
2003-06-26 0:34 ` narrow-to-here-document Kim F. Storm
2003-06-26 5:30 ` narrow-to-here-document Richard Stallman
2003-06-25 23:18 ` narrow-to-here-document Stefan Daschek
2003-06-26 5:59 ` mmm-mode.el(Re: narrow-to-here-document) Masatake YAMATO
2003-06-26 6:12 ` narrow-to-here-document David Kastrup
2003-06-26 13:00 ` narrow-to-here-document Alan Shutko
2003-06-30 0:34 ` narrow-to-here-document Miles Bader
2003-06-30 6:13 ` narrow-to-here-document Kai Großjohann
2003-06-30 17:19 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-06-30 20:11 ` narrow-to-here-document Kai Großjohann
2003-07-04 0:07 ` narrow-to-here-document Stefan Monnier
2003-07-04 6:46 ` narrow-to-here-document Kai Großjohann
2003-07-01 15:17 ` narrow-to-here-document Richard Stallman
2003-07-04 0:32 ` narrow-to-here-document Stefan Monnier
2003-07-07 23:45 ` [MMM] narrow-to-here-document Michael A. Shulman
2003-07-08 7:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-10 16:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-08 14:12 ` mmm-mode needs (was: narrow-to-here-document) Stefan Monnier
2003-07-08 20:02 ` [MMM] Re: narrow-to-here-document Richard Stallman
2003-06-25 16:58 ` narrow-to-here-document Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <20030625.143750.116352160.jet@gyve.org>
2003-06-26 5:29 ` narrow-to-here-document Richard Stallman
2003-06-26 7:19 ` narrow-to-here-document Miles Bader
2003-06-26 17:45 ` narrow-to-here-document Tak Ota
2003-06-26 23:10 ` narrow-to-here-document David Kastrup
2003-06-27 2:07 ` narrow-to-here-document Miles Bader
2003-06-27 2:49 ` narrow-to-here-document Richard Stallman
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