From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it ok to sort a list of overlays destructively? Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 05:25:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83wnpbtbsk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7ggcov1.fsf@mbork.pl> <83bl6nvpcl.fsf@gnu.org> <87czr3ecpc.fsf@mbork.pl> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17717"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 04:25:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m8ZGd-0004TQ-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2021 04:25:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42334 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8ZGb-0002yE-Ed for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8ZG5-0002wb-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8ZG5-0005OC-I5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3893 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8ZG5-0005RB-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:25:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87czr3ecpc.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:14:39 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132130 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:14:39 +0200 > > > The doc string kinda hints on that, since it talks about sorting the > > list, which would be unthinkable if it were the internal storage. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Return a list of the overlays that overlap the region BEG ... END. > Overlap means that at least one character is contained within the overlay > and also contained within the specified region. > Empty overlays are included in the result if they are located at BEG, > between BEG and END, or at END provided END denotes the position at the > end of the buffer. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Where does it say anything about sorting? Look at overlays-at.