Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps it would be better for overlays to evaporate by default. > > I tend to agree this would make things better in most cases, and only > be wrong in a few. However, it is an incompatible change, and in some > places it WILL break code.
And so, we shouldn't do ANYTHING about it in 22.x > > It occur to me that we could make it easier to find those places. > Suppose that by default the `evaporate' property is set to `display-warning'. > Suppose that in this case, when the overlay becomes empty, it evaporates > and displays a warning using `display-warning'. We can do that immediately AFTER the release. > > On seeing the warningm programmers would adapt their programs to set > `evaporate' either to t or nil and thus prevent the warning. > > In Emacs 23, we could change the default to t. Eventually, just before the 23.x release, yes. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel