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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should invisible imply intangible?
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:46:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203042346.g24NkNs30194@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200203042341.g24Nffq00590@aztec.santafe.edu

>     >     Also, as David Kastrup has mentioned repeatedly, intangible text tends
>     >     to break lots of things...
>     > 
>     > I don't think so.
> 
>     Please, Richard, try to remember the lengthy discussion we've had about that.
> 
> You seem to agree with my conclusion:
> 
>     In practice, it's generally a non-issue because most uses of intangible
>     text are restricted to a particular context so that this intangible
>     text is only accessed by a small body of elisp code.

I indeed agree as long as intangible stays as a rarely used feature.
OTOH If you turn invisible text into intangible text as well, then the
problem changes since it is not true any more that "most uses of
intangible text are restricted to a particular context".


	Stefan


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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-23 20:19 Should invisible imply intangible? Richard Stallman
2002-02-23 21:24 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2002-02-25  0:09   ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-25  5:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-26 20:13   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-01  1:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-03 14:40       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-03 17:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-04 23:41           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:46             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-03-05  1:40             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-07  2:30               ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:41           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 21:58             ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 23:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 23:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-09 20:03                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-09 22:37                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-10 21:32                     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]                       ` <200203102202.g2AM26q06798@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-03-11 19:06                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-12 17:56                           ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-13 10:58                             ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-13 11:19                               ` David Kastrup
2002-03-15  3:41                                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-15 11:47                                   ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  6:39                                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-16 11:58                                       ` David Kastrup
2002-03-18  9:06                                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 23:36                                           ` David Kastrup
2002-03-19  7:24                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-19 11:12                                               ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  0:22                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-16  0:56                                     ` Miles Bader
2002-03-16  0:59                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-16  1:25                                         ` David Kastrup
2002-03-17 10:06                                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-16  1:18                                     ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  1:28                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-16  2:16                                         ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  3:29                                         ` Miles Bader
2002-03-16  4:05                                           ` David Kastrup
2002-03-23 23:37                                         ` David Kastrup
2002-03-13 13:06                               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-13 14:15                                 ` David Kastrup
2002-03-13 16:53                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-14 12:42                                   ` Richard Stallman

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