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28.0.91; shortdoc: Add support for outline-minor-mode

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Message #38 received at 53981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 53981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#53981: 28.0.91; shortdoc: Add support for outline-minor-mode
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:02:18 +0100

Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de> writes:

> I think Juri's approach to provide a search function is better, since it
> gives more flexibility. At least please don't hard code the
> `outline-heading` property. Then one could use different properties and
> retroactively enable outline minor mode for modes which don't come with
> the outline-heading property. Maybe support a list of properties which
> indicate headlines? But at that point a function may just be simpler...

I don't see the point.  We're marking up buffers with semantic
information -- there isn't much point in trying to retrofit a machinery
like that for older packages.

I don't think it's necessary to create a whole machinery around this --
we should design with the future, not the past, in mind.

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