From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: john.b.mastro@gmail.com, theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr,
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:29:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppblyfxg.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9wyxbxt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:34:38 +0200")
> strings. The Emacs display engine was never meant to cope with such
> massive usage of these features. I think magit also uses a lot of
> overlay/display strings with newlines, or maybe it did in the past.
> That is one of the nastiest thing to do with Emacs display. (I can
> explain if you are interested.)
FWIW, nhexl-mode is also guilty of very heavy use of display strings.
> And frankly, I don't understand why this kind of design was necessary:
I don't know enough about Magit to have an informed opinion, but your
analysis makes sense, indeed. In the case of nhexl-mode we don't have
the luxury of changing the buffer's content.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-14 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-11 9:21 Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 9:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-11 12:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-11 12:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 17:12 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 17:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 19:54 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-11 20:53 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-11 21:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 0:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-12 10:54 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-12 0:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-12 3:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 11:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-11 12:42 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 12:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 11:53 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 11:57 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 12:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 13:48 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-11 14:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-11 15:59 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 17:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-11 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 19:24 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 20:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-12 15:44 ` John Mastro
2014-12-12 16:01 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-12-12 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 12:11 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2014-12-14 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-14 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-12-15 13:10 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2014-12-15 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-12 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-11 21:11 ` Rasmus
2014-12-11 17:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 0:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-12 3:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-12 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 14:06 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-12 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 14:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-14 20:48 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-14 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 2:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-15 9:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-11 18:55 ` Achim Gratz
2014-12-11 19:28 ` Steinar Bang
2014-12-11 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 9:06 ` vc-region-authors (or some such) Sebastien Vauban
2014-12-12 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-12-11 15:47 ` Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 17:02 ` Sergey Organov
2014-12-11 18:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-11 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 16:41 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-12 17:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-13 12:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-13 13:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-14 9:07 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-14 10:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-14 14:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-11 19:25 ` Karl Fogel
2014-12-11 19:50 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-12 15:42 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 16:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-12 17:16 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 17:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-12 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 20:54 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-13 9:30 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-13 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-13 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-13 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-13 15:21 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-14 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 13:13 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-14 13:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-15 17:25 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-15 4:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-15 17:34 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-17 21:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-12 20:52 ` Uwe Brauer
2014-12-12 17:41 ` Multiple independent projects per directory Eric S. Raymond
2014-12-12 18:07 ` Removing rollback from VC mode - request for comment Thien-Thi Nguyen
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