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: Defaulting to fancy diary display Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252186528 28226 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2009 21:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 21:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 05 23:35:21 2009 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 1Mk2um-0006sr-Or for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:35:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50369 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk2ul-0007en-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk2ug-0007ci-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk2ub-0007YP-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mk2ub-0007YK-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:55683) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk2ub-0008HT-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Mk2ua-0003Ef-SG; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:35:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:14:33 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:115060 Archived-At: It might not be very hard to implement editing the fancy diary display using an approach similar to that of Rmail Edit mode, which detects the changes made in the display buffer and copies them into the real home of the text. This would avoid the need for new basic mechanisms. The hardest issue I see is when to perform that updating. In Rmail Edit mode, that's simple: you do it when the user exits edit mode. If the fancy diary display is always writable, people could edit it and move away from it and be surprised that their changes were lost.