From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp manual issues regarding overlays, display properties, margins, etc.
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:38:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Id96n-0003B4-Op@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwsu5xr3f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:39 -0400)
> Maybe there should be a margin property (distinct from the current
> margin display spec) which specifies material to go in the margin
> (like the way the overlay before-string property works).
IIRC Gerd decided to use a single property `display' rather than several
properties, for reasons of performance. I do not know or remember what was
the particular performance issue(s), tho,
That is true, but we COULD have another kind of `margin' display spec
which works like `before-string'. It would be more logical. So I
wonder why it was not done that way. Maybe there was a reason.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-28 20:34 Emacs Lisp manual issues regarding overlays, display properties, margins, etc Joe Wells
2007-09-29 11:44 ` Johan Bockgård
[not found] ` <mailman.1468.1191066364.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-29 16:38 ` Joe Wells
2007-10-01 13:47 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-10-01 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-01 17:57 ` Joe Wells
2007-10-02 15:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-02 16:07 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-10-08 18:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-02 16:23 ` Joe Wells
2007-10-02 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-03 18:38 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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