Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:38:39 -0300 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: 

>> If you want, tell me how to patch my code, attached here, to do it the
>> smart way.

SM> I sent you sample code in the previous message.  While untested, it's
SM> partly cut&pasted from tex-mode.el, so it can't be very far
SM> from working.

I don't understand why it should remove the display property
conditionally.  I want my package (epoch-view.el) to supercede any other
display properties for text that matches the epoch timestamp regular
expression, or it won't work properly (some text will not have the
display property I want it to have).  You can argue that the other
packages' display property may be important, but I think mine is
important too.

Should I augment the display property, appending my text to the existing
text, if any?  It seems like the problem is really that there's only one
display property.

My main question, though: is this OK for inclusion in the GNU ELPA as it
is, or do you want the display property issue hammered out beforehand,
or are there other reasons not to include it?

Thanks
Ted