From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A vision for multiple major modes: some design notes Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:31:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83oa926i0e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160420194450.GA3457@acm.fritz.box> <05d5bd7e-1cea-4336-a37c-fe6bd6752558@default> <20160421124325.GC1775@acm.fritz.box> <64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461256304 15689 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2016 16:31:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:31:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 21 18:31:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1atHVx-0004Ds-Nr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:31:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atHVw-0005Cx-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atHVh-00059D-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atHVe-0006bu-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40764) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atHVe-0006bq-Df; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4989 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1atHVd-0002hL-Mp; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:31:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <64f1d39a-dfd0-44ca-86c1-b4d6104b5702@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:05:23 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203150 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:05:23 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I have no problem with stuff being in C for performance reasons. > When that is not critical, keeping stuff in Lisp is good. > > Especially for a new and very general feature: let folks play > with it and experiment with new possibilities. We can later > optimize any parts we like. The parts that affect redisplay must at least partially be in C, because there's no existing infrastructure that I'm aware of that can be piggy-backed to do this kind of stuff.