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: Can we make set_point_both less expensive? Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:29:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5505E34C.4000106@dancol.org> <838uex1u1m.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426602586 20890 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 14:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 15:29:39 2015 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 1YXsUs-000678-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:29:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXsUm-0001Ca-79 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXsUR-00015N-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXsUQ-0006bg-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45817) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXsUQ-0006bc-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXsUO-00032M-Ln; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:29:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:47:47 -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:183953 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. ]]] The reason I implemented 'intangible' was for the sake of editing forms. A form has fields to be edited, and fixed text that shouldn't be changed. But there is no need to put point within the fixed text; allowing that seems ugly. 'intangible' did not turn out to be a very good implementation of this. Can anyone do a better job? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.