From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: 59067@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59067: 29.0.50; Exexpected overlay order in `overlays-in' return value
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:16:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835yfs363u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rkobm21.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sun, 06 Nov 2022 07:04:54 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: 59067@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 07:04:54 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure we want to keep the old order (which AFAIU was the side
> > effect of the implementation), nor become committed to a specific
> > order. Sorting overlays is a slowdown, and not every application
> > cares about the order. The ones that do care can sort the overlays in
> > the order they want.
> >
> > Or maybe I'm missing something: can you explain why the order matters
> > in a couple of specific examples from Org?
>
> You are right. `overlays-in' docstring does not give any promises.
> It is not really a big deal for Org as well (can as well sort the return
> value).
>
> The only thing that could be useful on Emacs side is explicitly stating
> in the `overlays-in' docstring that overlay list may be in arbitrary
> order.
I'll wait for a few days for other ideas and opinions, and if nothing
pops up, I will amend the documentation (and NEWS, as this is probably
NEWS-worthy).
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-06 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-06 3:39 bug#59067: 29.0.50; Exexpected overlay order in `overlays-in' return value Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-06 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-06 7:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-06 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-07 23:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2022-11-10 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-10 20:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-10 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-10 21:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-10 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-11 2:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-11-11 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-11-11 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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