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bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 23:17:58 +0200 |
> Cc: 25592@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:19:15 -0500
>
> >> I'm writing a function that copies overlay properties to text properties.
> >
> > That function probably converts overlays by traversing buffer
> > positions from beginning to end, no? Then overlays-at should be what
> > you need, and next-overlay-change is your friend to move to the next
> > "interesting" position when you are done with this one.
> >
> > Isn't that what you are doing?
>
> No: I'm iterating over all overlays, and applying them one by one.
Why not do it as I suggest? Then your problems with sorting will be
solved as a nice side-effect.
> >> I reimplemented compare_overlays in ELisp, but that seems brittle.
> >
> > How did you implement in Lisp the "last resort" of comparison, which
> > compares addresses of the C structs?
>
> I didn't :)
So it isn't really a solution ;-)
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/01
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/02
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/02
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/03
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/03
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/04
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/05
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/07
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2017/02/07
- bug#25592: Feature request: sorting overlays, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/02/07