From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About intervals Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:04:43 +0200 Message-ID: <83ehfb1ftg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130319191805.430cfbcba6d14eeef2a1c852@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363712737 25057 80.91.229.3 (19 Mar 2013 17:05:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:05:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 19 18:06:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UHzz6-0005NF-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:06:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHzyi-0004RQ-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHzxk-0003Jy-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:04:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHzxj-0006OA-CU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:59386) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UHzxj-0006Nk-4y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:04:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJX00C002YRAI00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:04:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJX00C923FL5I90@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:04:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20130319191805.430cfbcba6d14eeef2a1c852@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89593 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:18:05 +0800 > From: Xue Fuqiao > > 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.