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: Overlay mechanic improvements Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:15:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871tr6qup8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y4tdnkro.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87r3z4mxvx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87ppenjjuj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411500682 12233 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2014 19:31:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:31:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 21:31:17 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 1XWVnx-0005UF-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:31:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVnw-000157-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:31:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVnc-00014E-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:30:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVna-0002lo-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVna-0002gZ-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVZ4-0002hN-Tn; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:15:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ppenjjuj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:50:28 +0200) 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:174671 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. ]]] > Since you say that is not the desired behavior, I'd like to understand > why not. > > What is a scenario for editing the text that is under the image > overlay, Any editing at all. The image is a visualization, you cannot edit that. It is output, not input. I think we are miscommunicating here. Could you answer in a less terse way? Is the idea that the user goes on editing, and the overlay images stick around even if they become invalid, and the user knows to ignore them? -- 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.