From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Remove delete-overlay? Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:12:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172725974 23508 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2007 05:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 06:12:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMdat-0006qr-Hv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:12:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdau-0003bv-Ir for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdai-0003YY-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdag-0003XN-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMdag-0003XD-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts40.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.97] helo=tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMdag-0000pc-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor.home ([70.55.146.57]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070301051229.OMGZ1624.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor.home> for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 201241C14E; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:12:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <45E5F868.7000108@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed\, 28 Feb 2007 22\:47\:20 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67102 Archived-At: > I have some times looked at the doc string for delete-overlay to convince > myself that the overlay is not deleted by delete-overlay. It is just > removed from the buffer. I always felt like it should be called "overlay-detach" or something like that, but I also always felt like it was much too late to change its name. Stefan