From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: obsolete selective-display ?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:50:52 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vmvjbxf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908290732.n7T7WJTf029070@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:32:19 -0700 (PDT)")
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> > > Is it time for selective-display be declared obsolete?
> >
> > What are the alternatives?
>
> 'invisible property on overlays
It's not entirely clear that's a good replacement, since using invisible
properties requires annotating the buffer and keeping those annotations
up-to-date (and of course, overlays can become _very_ expensive if there
are a lot of them).
My impression is that selective-display is slightly hard to use in some
cases -- the whole "hide everything following ^M is downright weird,
though the "hide more than N columns of indentation" behavior seems
straightforward enough -- but its very low cost is appealing.
-Miles
--
Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-29 5:27 obsolete selective-display ? Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-29 7:32 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-29 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 7:50 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-29 8:34 ` Replace selective-display in Gnus (was: obsolete selective-display ?) Reiner Steib
2009-08-29 15:40 ` Replace selective-display in Gnus Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 18:19 ` Reiner Steib
2009-08-29 18:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-14 19:05 ` Reiner Steib
2009-10-15 1:01 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-10-15 4:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-10-16 7:06 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-10-17 10:41 ` Reiner Steib
2009-10-18 23:51 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
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