From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
mt_void@warpmail.net, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
6922@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:24:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28u2wupk5.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837fj49lni.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:00:01 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> What is the current consensus? should we adjust the documentation or fix the
> code? John? Richard?
I think read-only overlays could be very useful. For example:
1. Create a command called `mask-regexp'. It creates read-only overlays for
matching text throughout the buffer.
2. There should also be a way to add manual masks, using `mask-region'.
3. Now use `replace-string' or any other command to bulk transform text.
However, masked text is not changed.
4. Then execute unmask-all, and the mask disappears.
This method of editing is key to video editing workflows. I think the only
reason I never thought to use it in Emacs is because it's never been there
(and so never occurred to me until now).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-07 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-26 14:46 bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect MT
2011-12-10 12:09 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-01-18 21:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-20 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-21 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-22 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 10:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-22 12:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-07 22:24 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-02-07 22:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 5:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 18:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 16:04 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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