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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About intervals
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:04:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ehfb1ftg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130319191805.430cfbcba6d14eeef2a1c852@gmail.com>

> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:18:05 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> 
> In (info "(elisp) Not Intervals"), it says that some editors let the
> user specify "intervals" within the text.  But it doesn't explain what
> "intervals" are.  I'm new to this concept.
> 
> I searched "interval and property" and "editor interval" in the list
> archives and web but didn't get anything that looked promising.
> 
> Can I get a pointer to information on this concept?  Sorry if it's off
> topic here.

Why do you expect the Emacs manual describe "other editors"? ;-)

Anyway, I think it is alluding to XEmacs's "extents".  If you want to
know what that is, read XEmacs manuals.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-19 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 11:18 About intervals Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-19 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.22454.1363691901.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-19 15:17 ` Helmut Eller
2013-03-19 22:41   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-20  0:24   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-20 10:25     ` Xue Fuqiao

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