From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, 70077@debbugs.gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com,
qhong@alum.mit.edu, frederic.bour@lakaban.net,
joaotavora@gmail.com, mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr, acm@muc.de,
stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, alan.zimm@gmail.com,
phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
Subject: bug#70077: An easier way to track buffer changes
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:57:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvedbrt8hi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867chjd5yp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:45:02 +0300")
>> `track-changes-fetch` will call its function argument only once.
>> If several changes happened since last time, `track-changes.el` will
>> summarize them into a single (BEG END BEFORE).
>
> Then I don't think you will be able to guarantee that in all cases.
> You are basically trying to solve a problem that many packages which
> used the modification hooks tried to solve, but where they relied on
> some specifics of the problem they wanted to solve, you are trying to
> solve it in general, and I just don't believe it's possible (but will
> be happy to learn I'm mistaken).
Indeed, there are cases where bugs in our C code will get in the way,
and I'll have to return something like (BEG END :error).
But other than that, the current code already handles
"arbitrary" merging.
Stefan
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2024-03-29 16:15 bug#70077: An easier way to track buffer changes Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-29 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-29 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-30 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-30 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-30 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-31 2:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-04-01 11:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-01 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-01 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-02 14:22 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-02 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-02 16:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-02 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-03 12:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-03 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-04 17:58 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-30 3:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-30 5:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-29 22:20 ` phillip.lord
2024-03-29 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-30 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-30 12:06 ` phillip.lord
2024-03-30 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-30 9:51 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-30 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-30 13:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-30 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-03-30 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-05 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-06 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-08 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-08 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-08 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-08 17:27 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-04-08 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-08 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-09 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-08 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-09 3:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-09 23:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-13 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-06 17:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-06 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-07 14:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-07 15:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-07 14:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-08 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-09 17:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-10 2:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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