From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:14:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172737045 31437 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 08:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 09:17:06 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 1HMgSq-0004Xi-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:16:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMgSr-0002f3-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMgSO-0002P6-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMgSO-0002OZ-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMgSO-0002OP-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMgSN-0001rs-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HMgQO-0002aX-Jq; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:14:04 -0500 In-reply-to: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.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:67109 Archived-At: I have some times looked at the doc string for delete-overlay to convince myself that the overlay is not deleted by delete-overlay. It is just removed from the buffer. The doc string does not tell that part of the story however. It would be nice if it did. Would someone please spell this out? (Note that it is impossible for a Lisp function to make an object cease to exist. As long as there are pointers to it, it will exist.)