From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New hook before-region-change-functions wanted Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:17:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170908144657.GA3463@ACM> <20170909083326.GA5194@ACM> <20170910073729.GA3588@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505093061 18442 195.159.176.226 (11 Sep 2017 01:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 03:24:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1drDS7-0003dH-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:23:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drDSE-0005AD-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drDMW-0001MU-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drDMQ-00085Z-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1drDMM-000832-Cq; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1drDML-00007a-Vs; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:17:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170910073729.GA3588@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:37:29 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218098 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 other approach has the virtue of being entirely internal. It will > > not require an announcement, or adding to the Lisp manual. > Yes. This other approach is slightly more difficult to debug with, but > not unreasonably so. Just from curiosity, why is it more difficult to debug with? Since it has no effect on behavior, and its only effect is to speed up some cases, I'd expect it to have no effect on debugging. Is there something I am missing? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.