[climacs-devel] update-syntax and delegating buffers

[Aleksandar Bakic]

Hi,

Is your update-syntax method in the cvs? I tried not to break things, sorry...
I suppose we can move name-mixin into extended-standard-buffer's superclass
list. I thought we should perhaps not have extended-*-buffer or climacs-buffer
inherit just about anything, i.e., I'd like to hear arguments for and against
cases like yours.

The rationale for the delegating-buffer is to allow for specifying the buffer
implementation at run time. When implementing it, I found that, in order to
minimize changes in the existing code, the simplest solution was to delegate
the two syntax-related methods, too. However, I had not planned for this, so
please suggest how you would like it changed and I'll try to do it asap.

Regards,
Alex

> Hi,
> 
> The change to delegating buffers has had a side effect for me: my
> UPDATE-SYNTAX method used to be able to obtain the name of the buffer
> it was updating for, but it can no longer, because the
> delegating-buffer method for update-syntax calls update-syntax on the
> implementation buffer, which doesn't mix in the name-mixin class.
> 
> Is there a reason for this surrounding method?  Is it simply to save a
> generic function call per buffer operation?  Should I not be
> attempting to find the name of a buffer from within UPDATE-SYNTAX?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christophe



	
		
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