From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: redisplay system of emacs Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:01:16 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <878wbhkweb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <27349166.post@talk.nabble.com> <83bpge50k5.fsf@gnu.org> <87vdem8gly.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87k4v1xm4l.fsf@gmail.com> <87ljfhkyg2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87bpgdxk3l.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264762942 14779 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2010 11:02:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:02:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 29 12:02:20 2010 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 1Naoc0-0000fB-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:02:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Naobz-0005Q0-Kh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Naobr-0005Oq-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Naobm-0005OO-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58616 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Naobm-0005OL-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32957) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Naobl-00073v-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NaobY-0000AJ-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:01:36 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c2a49.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.42.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:01:36 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c2a49.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:01:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c2a49.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iWwlPoVzrRJ3+dHASc2tCAALGsc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:120640 Archived-At: Paul R writes: > Hi David, > >> Uh, Emacs needs to work without noticeable delays and with syntax >> highlighting for documents of _book_ size, easily containing >> thousands of pages. In fact, the size of the total document should >> not affect editing speed. > > Is it so common to write books in a single monolithic file ? Yes. Because otherwise search&replace and other stuff become increasingly painful to do. In particular if not everybody working with the same documents is using Emacs. > The two typesetting systems I use from emacs allow (and encourage) to > split the documents in many files. And emacs corresponding modes are > designed for easy navigation between them. It is fine if Emacs supports more than one way of organizing your work. It is not fine if it falls apart if you don't do it in a particular way. -- David Kastrup