From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: forward-comment and syntax-ppss Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83fd1db0-7362-6117-c5cd-715398c0dea4@gmail.com> <20161207220447.GA4503@acm.fritz.box> <20161208201517.GB3120@acm.fritz.box> <20161209190747.GC2203@acm.fritz.box> <5a70902f-882e-f616-74b2-df6eb81fc70c@yandex.ru> <20161211101715.GA14084@acm.fritz.box> <51c0554f-40d0-37a5-b134-17058343aa3f@yandex.ru> <20161216200630.GB3858@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481930302 3101 195.159.176.226 (16 Dec 2016 23:18:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 23:18:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 00:18:19 2016 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 1cI1lW-00080R-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:18:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI1lZ-0006Oz-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI1lN-0006LG-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI1lJ-0004R8-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:19059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cI1lJ-0004PR-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:18:01 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AOKQAu3EVY/+J3oWxdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBgzgBAQEBAR+EW4VUnAIOGAGUVoIIhhwEAgKCEUISAQIBAQEBAQEBYiiEaQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIh6CK0Ui0QBAQgCASSLGYopBY98iiJIknOIJ4Y6kE6BQSYDLXgTDoVzIIktAQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0AOKQAu3EVY/+J3oWxdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBgzgBAQEBAR+EW4VUnAIOGAGUVoIIhhwEAgKCEUISAQIBAQEBAQEBYiiEaQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIh6CK0Ui0QBAQgCASSLGYopBY98iiJIknOIJ4Y6kE6BQSYDLXgTDoVzIIktAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,749,1477972800"; d="scan'208";a="282919426" Original-Received: from 108-161-119-226.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([108.161.119.226]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 16 Dec 2016 18:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 0B2DBAE127; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:07 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:08:14 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:210556 Archived-At: > The idea is to move the user-facing narrowing commands to some other > foundation (like the invisible and maybe intangible text properties), > freeing the narrowing facility for use by the Lisp code. While it might be a good direction, it's not as simple as it sounds, since many uses of the C-x n n command looks like "narrow to the region, and then apply to the whole buffer": I think it will be tricky to make overlays that mimick this behavior sufficiently well. Stefan