From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Last steps for pretesting (font-lock-extend-region-function)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:27:18 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1060425070947.675A-100000@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878xpuekad.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Hi, Stefan!
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I say to you again - your solution is not robust. I don't think it's
>> been tried at all (correct me if I'm wrong). A variant form of
>> f-l-extend-region-f (the advice on the f-l a-c-functions, as implemented
>> for AWK Mode) has been in use since June 2003, and so far no bugs related
>> to it have been reported by users. We are both aware of a refinement
>> which is needed, namely calling some sort of f-l-extend-region-f from
>> f-l-d-f-r and j-l-f-n.
>> So - please leave the better tested mechanism in place.
>I feel like Alice in wonderland:
So do I. :-) I'm still not 100% sure that we're arguing about exactly
the same thing.
>you talk as if I wanted to remove a well-established hook in favor of
>some new fangled feature, whereas the font-lock-multiline property is
>the one that's been in Emacs since 21.1, whereas your hook is the one
>that's new and that you want to add to Emacs-22.
It has already been added. I'm desperately trying to stop you from
taking it away again, because that would make my (Emacs) life much more
difficult.
>I think in order to justify this new hook you need to show that the
>pre-existing font-lock-multiline solution is not good enough in some
>cases.
I don't. I merely need to point out that Richard specifically asked for
this hook to be installed. When he did so, he was aware that it was
called from an after-change function.
> Stefan
--
Alan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-17 0:56 Last steps for pretesting Richard Stallman
2006-04-17 8:01 ` Ramprasad B
2006-04-17 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-18 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-19 3:54 ` Ramprasad B
2006-04-19 15:40 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-20 5:23 ` Ramprasad B
2006-04-18 17:31 ` Bill Wohler
2006-04-19 17:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-19 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-19 21:30 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-20 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-20 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-20 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-20 21:46 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-20 22:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-19 22:43 ` Last steps for pretesting (font-lock-extend-region-function) Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-20 9:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-20 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-20 18:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-20 20:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-20 22:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-20 23:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-21 7:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-21 12:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-21 19:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-21 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-24 19:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-24 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 6:21 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-04-25 10:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-25 18:37 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-04-25 22:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 6:14 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-04-25 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 20:10 ` font-lock-multiline for cc-awk Stefan Monnier
2006-04-26 7:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 19:23 ` Last steps for pretesting (font-lock-extend-region-function) Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 11:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-25 11:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-04-25 12:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 14:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-25 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 21:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-25 21:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 4:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-24 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 7:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-25 12:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 21:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-26 8:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 13:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-24 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 7:27 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2006-04-25 12:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 13:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 0:22 ` Miles Bader
2006-04-25 4:39 ` Tomas Zerolo
2006-04-25 19:02 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-04-25 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 20:12 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-04-25 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 20:58 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-04-25 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 22:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 4:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-26 7:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-25 22:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-26 4:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-21 23:14 ` Drew Adams
2006-04-19 22:53 ` Last steps for pretesting (true file names in load-history?) Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-20 1:14 ` Last steps for pretesting Richard Stallman
2006-04-24 17:52 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-20 10:54 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-21 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
2006-04-21 5:46 ` David Kastrup
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