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Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes.


From: Oliver Scholz
Subject: Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes.
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:14:41 +0200
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> buffer rather than in a string and that they are /editable/.  And that
>> question I can reduce to: how can I implement a tree-like data
>> structure with text properties?
>
> Without thinking too much about it, I'd say that overlays seem to be
> a better fit: each node is an overlay, the node's attributes can be stored
> in the overlay's properties, the text corresponding to a node can be stored
> directly in the buffer and retrieved by (buffer-substring (overlay-start o)
> (overlay-end o)), ...

I did not spend any thought about overlays, because I thought they
were too expensive?  The documents could be large and have many nodes.

Of course, if overlays work better: maybe they could be made more
efficient in the long run?

    Oliver
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