From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: question about narrowed behavior of next-property-change et al. Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:12:29 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301260112.h0Q1CTr17923@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043543553 8426 80.91.224.249 (26 Jan 2003 01:12:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:12:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cbLb-0002Bl-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 02:12:31 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18cbP5-0007mw-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 02:16:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cbMf-0002Gk-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:13:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cbMJ-00022j-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cbLn-0000d7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cbLa-0008SH-00; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0Q1CTr17923; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:12:29 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11068 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11068 > 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