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: enriched-mode and switching major modes. Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:31:57 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200409042358.i84Nwjt19152@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llfn5ihw.fsf@emacswiki.org> <867jqot0be.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> <01c4a00c$Blat.v2.2.2$800e77a0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095813149 535 80.91.229.6 (22 Sep 2004 00:32:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:32:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai Grossjohann , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 02:32:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9v3U-0001xq-00 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:32:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9v9R-0006DC-Hr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C9v9L-0006D7-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C9v9L-0006Cv-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9v9L-0006Cs-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9v38-0008TW-Kt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9v38-00069w-0k; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:31:58 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4a00c$Blat.v2.2.2$800e77a0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:53:58 +0300") 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:27404 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27404 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > As Kim pointed out, that depends on what the Lisp program wants to > do. In many cases, Lisp programs walk the buffer in order to decide > how the displayed text looks (or will look when it comes into the > visible portion of the buffer). Such programs will want to see a > very close approximation of the actual display. "Many cases" meaning almost exclusively the display engine, and maybe cursor motion. Which is not the majority of Lisp programs. In particular, it is almost exclusively Emacs-internal code, not that from external packages or written by a user. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum