From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25355: 26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace buffer contents Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 21:05:50 +0300 Message-ID: <8337cgee4h.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494180432 1733 195.159.176.226 (7 May 2017 18:07:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 18:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25355@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 07 20:07:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QaJ-0000NH-TP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 20:07:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QaP-0005am-9h for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QaH-0005ST-Mj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QaE-00045A-J5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:34180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QaE-000454-F9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QaE-0003pz-7L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:07:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25355 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 25355-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25355.149418039514717 (code B ref 25355); Sun, 07 May 2017 18:07:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25355) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 May 2017 18:06:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60612 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QZn-0003pJ-Cm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60002) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QZl-0003p1-7i for 25355@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QZc-0003rB-PF for 25355@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QZc-0003qy-Lf; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:06:24 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4727 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1d7QZY-0007uO-Gz; Sun, 07 May 2017 14:06:24 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 07 May 2017 17:44:27 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:132350 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 17:44:27 +0000 > > FYI, I've now implemented this based on libmba (http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/). Unless there are > concerns importing part of that library into the Emacs source tree, I'll send a patch. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "importing part of that library". Are you going to ask the author to sign legal papers assigning copyright to the FSF? P.S. Doesn't GNU Diff have code to do this? Even dispnew.c has something similar, see scrolling_window.