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#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:43:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83mve4uxwr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837f5avzdm.fsf@gnu.org> <75813a2b-ba63-e356-d766-cd9ae77b28e2@live.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486068309 17523 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2017 20:45:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 20:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25592@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 21:45:06 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 1cZOFd-0004L7-6X for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 21:45:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOFi-0006Av-Sr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOEi-0005cn-8w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:44:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOEd-0001kx-RT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:44:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:56075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOEd-0001kG-Ng for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOEc-00069P-Cp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25592 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 25592-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25592.148606821023599 (code B ref 25592); Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25592) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Feb 2017 20:43:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54274 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOE6-00068Z-0G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52344) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cZOE4-00068M-Ej for 25592@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZODv-0001O0-S7 for 25592@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZODv-0001Nq-Ok; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2535 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cZODu-0000Fr-Al; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:43:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <75813a2b-ba63-e356-d766-cd9ae77b28e2@live.com> (message from =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel on Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:41:21 -0500) 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:128892 Archived-At: > Cc: 25592@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Clément Pit--Claudel > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:41:21 -0500 > > I'm writing a function that copies overlay properties to text properties. That function probably converts overlays by traversing buffer positions from beginning to end, no? Then overlays-at should be what you need, and next-overlay-change is your friend to move to the next "interesting" position when you are done with this one. Isn't that what you are doing? > I reimplemented compare_overlays in ELisp, but that seems brittle. How did you implement in Lisp the "last resort" of comparison, which compares addresses of the C structs?