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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	mt_void@warpmail.net, rms@gnu.org, 6922@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:53:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bn7dn94j.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y4ait0ys.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:52:43 +0200")

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> If you are arguing for having a feature that marks some portion of buffer
> text read-only, then we already have that: the 'read-only' text property.
> The issue in this discussion is whether we should _also_ have a similar
> overlay property.

That said, I think the right way to implement clock-masking in Org would be to
use an overlay whose existence is tied to the clock. A text-property might be
incompatible with the way Org uses font-locking.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2





  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 14:46 bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect MT
2011-12-10 12:09 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-01-18 21:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-20 18:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21  3:02     ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-21 17:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22  3:24         ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-22  7:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 10:59             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-22 12:58               ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-07 22:24     ` John Wiegley
2016-02-07 22:30       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18  5:12       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 16:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 18:53           ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-02-08 16:04     ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 17:55       ` Eli Zaretskii

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