From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:12:07 +0900 Message-ID: <87irdktv7c.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> <38695.128.165.123.18.1172789005.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172790756 23685 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 23:12:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: herring@lanl.gov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 00:12:30 2007 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 4.50) id 1HMuRn-0007fM-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMuRn-00037X-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMuRb-00037I-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMuRa-000376-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMuRZ-000373-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:14 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HMuRW-0001Mz-5Z; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:10 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-97-073.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.97.73] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1HMuRT-0004mD-6w; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:12:07 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 10A622F43; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:12:07 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <38695.128.165.123.18.1172789005.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (Stuart D. Herring's message of "Thu\, 1 Mar 2007 14\:43\:25 -0800 \(PST\)") Original-Lines: 12 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:67172 Archived-At: "Stuart D. Herring" writes: > Many objects in Emacs can become "dead", and some of those, once "dead", > can never be used again, or only used again under special circumstances. I think such objects are oddities -- they typically work that way because there's some external resource whose state cannot be revived. -Miles -- "Suppose He doesn't give a shit? Suppose there is a God but He just doesn't give a shit?" [George Carlin]