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From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Takaaki Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: momentary-string-display
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:53:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0612271553m7dd0047fkf1c414888e219129@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Gzg8n-0002hy-4X@fencepost.gnu.org>

On 12/27/06, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> momentary-string-display is a kludge, which should be used as little
> as possible.

I couldn't agree more.

> It is used very little, so it has little potential to do
> any harm.

Still, points 1) to 3) in my post would be fixed or circumvented just by adding

  (setq pos (point))

after

  (goto-char pos)

and clarifying the docstring to note that, when passed a marker, only
the position is used, not the buffer.

> It would be clean to make momentary-string-display use overlays
> and not change the buffer text at all.  Would you like to try
> writing that?

I assume you're asking to Takaaki :)

> But let's not delay the release for it.

Sure. What is delaying the release, BTW?

                    /L/e/k/t/u

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-27 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-27  1:18 momentary-string-display Juanma Barranquero
2006-12-27 21:16 ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2006-12-27 23:53   ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2006-12-29 15:44     ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-02 23:58       ` momentary-string-display Juanma Barranquero
2006-12-29  4:47   ` momentary-string-display Kevin Rodgers
2006-12-29 22:58     ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-03  8:53       ` momentary-string-display Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-04  1:41         ` momentary-string-display Stephen Leake
2007-01-04  2:31         ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-04 15:31           ` momentary-string-display Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-04 22:34             ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-04 23:18               ` momentary-string-display Juanma Barranquero
2007-01-05 19:09                 ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-05  7:05               ` momentary-string-display Stephen Leake
2007-01-06  2:54                 ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-06  7:36                   ` momentary-string-display Stephen Leake
2007-01-07  3:47                     ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-07 14:41                       ` momentary-string-display Stephen Leake
2007-01-02 22:54   ` momentary-string-display Tak Ota
2007-01-03 21:11     ` momentary-string-display Richard Stallman
2007-01-03 21:36       ` momentary-string-display Tak Ota

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