Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. > > Why would it be better then than now?
> No matter when we do it, it will cause some programs > to issue these warnings. People will have to report them > so we can fix them. The natural time to do that will be > in pretesting. We will soon (I hope) do pretesting. We do "pretesting" all the time with CVS emacs -- there are many ordinary users using it already for everyday work. > Why postpone this till the pretest of the subsequent version? Because it will delay releasing 22.x. > > If this were a new feature, I would say let's put it off. > But it is not a feature but a way of finding bugs, such as > the bug that Bob and others tracked down with so much effort > and time. It is not a new feature, and so the bugs it causes are not new either -- if we hope to fix every possible bug before releasing 22.x, it will never be ready! > This change would involve some work. We would have to > check all 136 or so calls to make-overlay or its synonyms > in the Emacs sources, and change each of them to DTRT > with the overlay property. That's a substantial job > and maybe nobody wants to do it. I don't have time. -- 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
