From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:09:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878wusz0v9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87vdxp27z6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87prnxe5hc.fsf@rattlesnake.com> <873aktck5d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5e5dsvq.fsf@rattlesnake.com> <48B44802.1080302@emf.net> <48B5D5EF.2030501@emf.net> <20080827220906.GB5374@muc.de> <48B5FB11.6090708@emf.net> <48BC2FC0.90001@emf.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220317907 18799 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 01:11:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 01:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 03:12:41 2008 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 1KaKRf-0000NB-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:12:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaKQg-0007AB-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaKPn-0006AQ-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:10:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaKPm-00069E-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55804 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaKPm-00068v-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:60127) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KaKPm-0002DB-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KaKOD-0004YQ-0C; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:09:01 -0400 In-reply-to: <48BC2FC0.90001@emf.net> (message from Thomas Lord on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:09:04 -0700) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:103402 Archived-At: > I also worry that it will be harder for most developers to understand > and change -- or even to use. For instance, making redisplay operate > on that data structure could be very hard for that reason. > I don't see any reason that code would *need* to change. I think lots of the redisplay code operates directly on buffer contents. Other primitives too.