From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25355@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25355: 26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace buffer contents
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:21:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkTDuxCUqKci0-m1Qq41XTeR+myk-m32=sbzah43Dbm-_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 7. Mai 2017 um 20:06 Uhr:
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 17:44:27 +0000
> >
> > FYI, I've now implemented this based on libmba (
> http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/). Unless there are
> > concerns importing part of that library into the Emacs source tree, I'll
> send a patch.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "importing part of that
> library". Are you going to ask the author to sign legal papers
> assigning copyright to the FSF?
>
I guess we can just use the library as-is? It's MIT-licensed.
>
> P.S. Doesn't GNU Diff have code to do this?
Sure, but it's not a library. libmba was the only library that I've found
so far with a usable interface (i.e. that doesn't assume that the input
sequences are byte arrays).
> Even dispnew.c has
> something similar, see scrolling_window.
>
That doesn't appear to be reusable.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 12:45 bug#25355: 26.0.50; Provide function to non-destructively replace buffer contents Philipp
2017-01-04 13:38 ` npostavs
2017-05-07 17:44 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-07 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 18:21 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-05-07 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 18:45 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-07 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-14 19:30 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-15 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-15 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-16 1:08 ` Richard Stallman
2017-05-15 22:09 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-12 21:17 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-17 13:47 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-17 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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