Re: Should overlays evaporate by default?

[Peter Whaite]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The goal now is to *find* possible bugs.
> > The patch should set the property to something unusual (maybe
> > `never-set') by default.  When such an overlay becomes empty, there
> > should be some sort of warning.  That way, people will find code
> > that perhaps ought to set the evaporate property to something
> > explicitly.
> 
> ok, below is a patch to buffer.c that does this, more or less.  the
> (%d,%d) is perhaps redundant, but since we're in the checking mood...

Thanks that looks great.  Its a long weekend here, so I'll try it next
week.

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Peter Whaite