Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates

[Stefan Monnier]

SM> Well, I do think Emacs should make it easier for various packages to
SM> use the same property without stepping on each other's toes, but
SM> right now there isn't any good support for that.  The font-lock-face
SM> thingy is kind of a solution, but I don't think it's very convincing
SM> and would rather not use it for more things.  I've already outlined
SM> the way I think things should work, on emacs-devel a few months ago.

> OK.  Would you say this is on the TODO list for Emacs 24.x, 25.x, or
> "some day"?

It's been on the TODO list for a while already.  Actually, I think it's
reasonably easy to do (all the work is done when the properties are
added/removed, so there's no need to touch any of the redisplay code).


        Stefan