From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propertizing the minor-mode-alist Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:07:51 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1095335866.7357.83.camel@pineapple.bkk.thaiopensource.com> <1095388341.7357.93.camel@pineapple.bkk.thaiopensource.com> <1095475837.7357.125.camel@pineapple.bkk.thaiopensource.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095574103 14849 80.91.229.6 (19 Sep 2004 06:08:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: James Clark , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 08:08:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C8urr-0007TW-00 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8uxf-0005hj-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8uxZ-0005h6-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8uxY-0005gh-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8uxY-0005gX-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C8urf-0000vT-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C8urY-0001NM-8a; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:07:52 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:55:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27266 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27266 Richard Stallman writes: > Such a feature could certainly be implemented and made safe. > One must not simply copy and tweak the code for :propertize, > because the handling of risky needs to be thought about. > However, I tend to think that the right solution is to use > an interface that is more typical of Emacs features. One could specially recognize the :priority property that is used for overlay disambiguation. This would have the disadvantage that one could not use :propertize to lower the priority. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum