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: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:17:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <201211080338.qA83c7NY006393@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> <20635.16010.769769.433949@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> <509CD1EF.8070701@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352470680 25461 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2012 14:18:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 14:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Barzilay , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 15:18:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWpPL-0005oL-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:18:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWpPC-00056w-Mi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWpP7-00055E-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:17:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWpP3-0001XL-10 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:21904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWpP2-0001XB-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:17:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09sr+ZY/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHAW6CZBEA4hCmnGBWIMH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="206807045" Original-Received: from 108-175-230-88.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.175.230.88]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Nov 2012 09:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 83F165978D; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:17:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <509CD1EF.8070701@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:50:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154758 Archived-At: >>> I'll be happy if it does happen, of course. One thing that would be >>> much simpler is if the functionality is folded into the scrolling >>> functions (as a customizable thing, of course), then a large part of >> Yes, that's the way I'd like to see it, indeed. > Without a post-display hook? Then the display-engine may override it. I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I'm just talking about the fact that the code he has right now does something similar to advising/redefining some functions (which is the only way to do it for an external package), and I'd rather just change those functions in the source code instead. Stefan