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Re: call this a mark??

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: call this a mark??
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 01:20:07 +0100 (MET)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199701161641.RAA29990@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from Peter Stephenson at "Jan 16, 97 05:41:06 pm"

> I suppose this is just my ignorance, but I was amazed to discover just
> now (playing with the history lines thing) that the `mark' in zle is
> not a mark at all, just a character offset which is confused by
> insertion and deletion.  Shouldn't it be possible to do something
> about this by adding code to spaceinline(), backkill/del(),
> forekill/del() -- or are there hidden problems?

Emacs just invalidates the mark when any character is inserted/deleted.  That
would be a simple solution (a new ZLE_ flag can be added to mark those zle
functions which do not invalidate the mark).

Zoltan

Follow-Ups:
- Re: call this a mark??
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: call this a mark??
  - From: Daniel Reish

References:
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  - From: Peter Stephenson

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