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: feature request: text property to prevent font-locking Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:33:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20140830092701.GA3351@acm.acm> <34f3e246-bbfb-4864-83e9-4a0c81d4202e@default> <0f746243-e04c-4d07-ace8-2e54625aaffc@default> <20140831214324.GB4401@acm.acm> <87lhq49l3v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409625202 20398 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2014 02:33:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 02:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 04:33:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOduG-0001JU-9I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 04:33:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOduF-0000Hc-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOduC-0000HV-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOduC-0001yy-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOduC-0001ys-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOduA-0003VM-OV; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:33:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:45:35 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173943 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Overlays are not the same as extents. Extents try to be both text properties and overlays, and I think that mixture can't be implemented without incoherent behaviors. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.