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Re: Uninformative comment in files.el
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Uninformative comment in files.el |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:43:37 +0900 |
Richard Stallman writes:
> Or maybe the package [...] wants the overlay to cover the
> whole buffer, for instance,
>
> [That is a] pretty silly [way] to use an overlay. I won't say it
> is inconceivable that any package does this, but I think it is not
> sufficient reason to forego fixing this problem.
Well, one (and possibly more) whole-buffer overlay(s) is a consequence
of an obvious strategy to implement a top-down parser. Ie, wrap each
non-terminal parsed with an overlay to carry annotations as you return
from recursive levels. At least, it was obvious to me when I did it.
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, (continued)
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell, 2007/12/12
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Vinicius Jose Latorre, 2007/12/12
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/12/12
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell, 2007/12/12
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/13
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/12/13
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, martin rudalics, 2007/12/13
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, David Kastrup, 2007/12/13
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/15
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/15
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el,
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- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/14
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/12/20
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/21
- Re: Uninformative comment in files.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/12/22
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