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Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill |
Date: |
07 Apr 2002 23:14:51 -0400 |
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 19:42, Richard Stallman wrote:
> If we had extents, the right way to solve that problem, in my opinion,
> would be to add another extent with a higher priority face, and another
> property like 'temporary t. Then, you could search for all extents with
> a 'temporary property, and delete them.
>
> You can do this now, with overlays. Overlays are a lot like extents.
Yes. In fact, as far as I can see, overlays are only really missing one
major feature; what the XEmacs people call the "duplicable" property,
such that when text covered by an extent is copied and later inserted
into another buffer, a new extent with the same properties is created
covering the text.
> We can do that, too. In fact, we partly already have.
> I was trying to convince you to help do more of it.
Yes, you mentioned insert-with-overlays. I'm going to work on it after
finishing update-game-score.
> The advantages you see are not real advantages because they are not
> really differences. If you like the extent facility it makes no sense
> for you to dislike the extremely similar overlay facility.
Extremely similar, except for that all-important duplicable property,
which would solve my ibuffer problem in a clean way.
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, (continued)
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/08
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/10
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, John Wiegley, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill,
Colin Walters <=
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/09
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Miles Bader, 2002/04/06
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Colin Walters, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Kai Großjohann, 2002/04/07
- Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill, Kai Großjohann, 2002/04/06