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Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042]
From: |
Mark Lillibridge |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042] |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:00:45 -0700 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:17:26 +0200
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 23:04, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Why do you think they should be distinguished?
> >
> > It would perhaps be useful to distinguish between user narrowing and
> > program narrowing (the one used by Info, rmail, etc., I mean).
>
> I don't see why. Both use-cases limit commands to a portion of a
> buffer. What's the difference between these two classes of narrowing,
> and how would distinguishing between them be useful?
The issue is that font-lock mode, goto-line, linum mode, and perhaps
other features need to treat them differently. These features want to
widen to the "application" restriction when processing the current
buffer, ignoring any temporary restriction.
- Mark
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], (continued)
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], David Kastrup, 2010/04/18
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juri Linkov, 2010/04/18
- RE: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Drew Adams, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042],
Mark Lillibridge <=
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Lennart Borgman, 2010/04/18
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Mark Lillibridge, 2010/04/21
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], David Kastrup, 2010/04/22
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juanma Barranquero, 2010/04/22
- Re: Emacs's handling of line numbers [from bug#5042], Juri Linkov, 2010/04/22