From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Whaite Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should overlays evaporate by default? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:20:00 -0400 Message-ID: <200505171620.j4HGK0e4005185@brains.moreideas.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116393495 18188 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 05:18:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 05:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 07:18:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYGwN-00084L-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:17:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYGyl-0007j9-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 01:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DY9u8-0008KI-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DY9u7-0008Jv-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DY9lT-0004vJ-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:38:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.5.194.98] (helo=orval.sprint.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DY4vY-0005nE-2b; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca ([149.99.128.57]) by orval.sprint.ca (InterMail vM.5.01.02.00 201-253-122-103-101-20001108) with ESMTP id <20050517162003.FDAQ16497.orval.sprint.ca@brains.moreideas.ca>; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by brains.moreideas.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4HGK2gV005192; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from brains.moreideas.ca (peta@localhost) by brains.moreideas.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id j4HGK0e4005185; Tue, 17 May 2005 12:20:00 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Stallman of "Mon, 16 May 2005 17:21:21 EDT." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.83+cvs; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.58 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37231 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37231 Richard Stallman wrote: > I thought I would quickly try it out, but all the overlay defuns are in > C code and it would require a fair bit of effort on my part to become > familiar with the C mechanisms (how to set, get properties, invoke other > defuns, etc.), and I dont have that much time. > > If you want to try out such patches, I suppose someone here would be > willing to write the patches for you to try. I would be willing to try patches, and that would help me get up to speed faster. If everyone is to busy with other things, could I use defadvice to instrument the overlay functions instead? -- Peter Whaite (http://whaite.ca)