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bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on |
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Sun, 12 May 2019 07:23:33 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>, bzg@gnu.org, 16493@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 16:06:12 -0400
>
> >> Starting from t, (add-to-invisibility-spec 'foo) also has the weird
> >> result that it *reduces* the number of properties which cause
> >> invisibility (from infinity to 2).
> > Yes, but I don't see that as a problem.
>
> Here's another way to look at it:
>
> Give me a circumstance where an Elisp package can make use of the fact
> that buffer-invisibility-spec defaults to t?
That's the wrong way of looking at the issue, if you want to talk
about the aspects that I called "confusing". I see no technical
problems with using (t) instead of t, I just said that it confuses the
heck out of me, because its semantics is not clear by just looking at
the value.
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Noam Postavsky, 2019/05/01
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/01
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/01
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Noam Postavsky, 2019/05/11
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/11
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/11
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/12
- bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/12