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: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:56:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83pr1wbq65.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837ho6czb6.fsf@gnu.org> <8339yucbsg.fsf@gnu.org> <83wrw5bxkc.fsf@gnu.org> <83tyr9bgid.fsf@gnu.org> <83sk6sbre3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271613428 3451 80.91.229.12 (18 Apr 2010 17:57:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, mark.lillibridge@hp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 18 19:57:06 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3Yjx-0002Pe-JY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:57:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3Yju-00062J-3R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:57:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O3Yjp-00061v-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48403 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O3Yjo-00061B-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3Yjm-0005Qp-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:50226) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O3Yjm-0005QZ-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L1300A002X9QU00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:56:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.69.249]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L1300AM235P7F30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:56:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123850 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:52:11 +0200 > Cc: mark.lillibridge@hp.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Actually, it happens to be a feature (more accurately, a basis for a > > feature), both in Info and in Rmail. > > It is that feature inequivocally linked to being implemented via narrowing? Well, Rmail no longer uses narrowing, it uses buffer-swap-text instead. Maybe Info should do the same, and then we will have no conflicts.