Re: obsolete selective-display ?

[Miles Bader]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
>   > > Is it time for selective-display be declared obsolete?
>   > 
>   > What are the alternatives?
>
> 'invisible property on overlays

It's not entirely clear that's a good replacement, since using invisible
properties requires annotating the buffer and keeping those annotations
up-to-date (and of course, overlays can become _very_ expensive if there
are a lot of them).

My impression is that selective-display is slightly hard to use in some
cases -- the whole "hide everything following ^M is downright weird,
though the "hide more than N columns of indentation" behavior seems
straightforward enough -- but its very low cost is appealing.

-Miles

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