From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: question about narrowed behavior of next-property-change et al.
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:12:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301260112.h0Q1CTr17923@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E18cVtQ-0002g8-00@fencepost.gnu.org
> Since the suggested change would only effect narrowed buffers, and only
> to make them act more like a normal non-narrowed buffer, I would think
> that only code that explicitly uses narrowing is potentially a problem
> (under the assumption that a narrowed buffer should usually appear to
> lisp code as if it were a normal buffer containing only the narrowed
> region).
>
> This reasoning is plausible indeed, but I still think that whoever
> changes this should also check the callers one buy one.
Instead of spending this time, I'd rather bet $1000 that Miles's change will
not introduce any new bug: it might make an existing bug show up more
often, but introducing a new bug with his suggested change seems incredibly
unlikely.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-26 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-23 8:50 question about narrowed behavior of next-property-change et al Miles Bader
2003-01-23 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-24 5:43 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-24 6:06 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-25 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-26 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-01-27 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-27 14:52 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-29 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
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