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Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Should overlays evaporate by default? |
Date: |
Wed, 11 May 2005 12:27:52 -0400 |
Perhaps it would be better for overlays to evaporate by default.
I tend to agree this would make things better in most cases, and only
be wrong in a few. However, it is an incompatible change, and in some
places it WILL break code.
It occur to me that we could make it easier to find those places.
Suppose that by default the `evaporate' property is set to `display-warning'.
Suppose that in this case, when the overlay becomes empty, it evaporates
and displays a warning using `display-warning'.
On seeing the warningm programmers would adapt their programs to set
`evaporate' either to t or nil and thus prevent the warning.
In Emacs 23, we could change the default to t.
- Re: RMAIL slows, (continued)
- Re: RMAIL slows, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/05
- Re: RMAIL slows, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/05/05
- Re: RMAIL slows, Kevin Rodgers, 2005/05/05
- Re: RMAIL slows, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/05/06
- Re: RMAIL slows, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/06
- Re: RMAIL slows, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/05/06
- Re: RMAIL slows, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/06
- Re: RMAIL slows, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/05/07
- Re: RMAIL slows, Robert J. Chassell, 2005/05/10
- Should overlays evaporate by default?, Peter Whaite, 2005/05/10
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Kim F. Storm, 2005/05/12
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/12
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Kim F. Storm, 2005/05/13
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/13
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Peter Whaite, 2005/05/16
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/17
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Peter Whaite, 2005/05/17
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/18
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2005/05/17
- Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/18