Re: forward-comment and syntax-ppss

[Stefan Monnier]

> The idea is to move the user-facing narrowing commands to some other
> foundation (like the invisible and maybe intangible text properties),
> freeing the narrowing facility for use by the Lisp code.

While it might be a good direction, it's not as simple as it sounds,
since many uses of the C-x n n command looks like "narrow to the region,
and then apply <blabla> to the whole buffer": I think it will be tricky
to make overlays that mimick this behavior sufficiently well.


        Stefan