all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:04:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838u065813.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160421213323.GD1775@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:33:23 +0000)

> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 21:33:23 +0000
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> I'll get a fuller reply to you later.  But for now....

Thanks.

> Given a buffer position, we need to be able to find the corresponding
> island chain.  "Obviously", we do this with a text property, which we
> might as well call `island', or possibly `chain'.

Why text properties?  Have you considered a hash table?  I think it
will be faster, and will also avoid a few complications that text
properties bring as baggage you don't necessarily want (like what
happens when you copy text to another location or buffer).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-22  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-20 19:44 A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-20 21:06 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-20 23:00   ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 12:43   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-21 14:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-23  2:20       ` zhanghj
2016-04-23 22:36       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-21 16:05     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 16:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default>
     [not found]       ` <<83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-21 16:59         ` Drew Adams
2016-04-21 19:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<<64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default>
     [not found]       ` <<<83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <<791d74d1-2b1d-4304-8e7e-d6c31af7aa41@default>
     [not found]           ` <<83eg9y68jy.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-21 20:26             ` Drew Adams
2016-04-20 22:27 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-21  9:14   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 12:45     ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-21 21:33   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-21 22:01     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-22  8:13       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 17:04         ` Drew Adams
2016-04-22  9:04     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-13 21:17     ` John Wiegley
2016-06-14 13:13       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-06-14 16:27         ` John Wiegley
2016-04-21 22:19   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22  8:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22 22:35       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23  7:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-23 17:02           ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 18:12             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-23 18:26               ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-23 21:08               ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24  6:29                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-24 16:57                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24 19:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25  6:49                       ` Andreas Röhler
2016-04-22 13:42     ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-23 17:14       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-22 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-04-22 18:58 ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-22 20:22   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-23 12:27     ` Andreas Röhler
2016-04-23 12:38     ` Richard Stallman
2016-04-23 17:31       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-04-24  9:22         ` Richard Stallman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=838u065813.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=acm@muc.de \
    --cc=dgutov@yandex.ru \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.