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: Emacs Lisp manual issues regarding overlays, display properties, margins, etc. Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86d4w2y1ej.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86tzp9v61x.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191352865 14370 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2007 19:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Joe Wells Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 02 21:21:00 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 1IcnIc-0005iO-Is for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:20:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnIY-0005ky-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnIU-0005jg-1B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnIS-0005iB-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnIS-0005i6-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [145.253.90.146] (helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcnIO-0003zg-UJ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BAD6AB40D6; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:20:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <86tzp9v61x.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (Joe Wells's message of "Tue\, 02 Oct 2007 17\:23\:54 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:80147 Archived-At: > Maybe there should be a margin property (distinct from the current > margin display spec) which specifies material to go in the margin > (like the way the overlay before-string property works). IIRC Gerd decided to use a single property `display' rather than several properties, for reasons of performance. I do not know or remember what was the particular performance issue(s), tho, Stefan