From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stuart D. Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:33:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38685.128.165.123.18.1172788384.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> <87irdl3543.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> <45E6AC5B.20502@gmail.com> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172788413 16025 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 22:33:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 23:33:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMtpz-0006P7-Mn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:33:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMtpz-00082J-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMtpl-00082C-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMtpi-00081w-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:33:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMtpi-00081t-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:33:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54] helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMtph-0004fa-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:33:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l21MX5oP018566 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:33:05 -0700 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l21MX4aM025070; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:33:04 -0700 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l21MX4fj003141; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:33:04 -0700 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l21MX4Z4003138; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:33:04 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:33:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <45E6AC5B.20502@gmail.com> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-2.el3.7lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:67166 Archived-At: > Since I am non-english I had to consult a dictionary now: > > - delete: to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing > - remove: to change the location, position -- but also to get rid of, > eliminate I think it's worth noting that deleting an overlay does in fact "cut it out" of its buffer, as if it were a patch on fabric. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.