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
next prev parent 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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