From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display property as display spec vector behavior unclear
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijfy1bil6s.fsf@gamma02.me.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86odfzfxne.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk
Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk> writes:
> The documentation in the Emacs Lisp manual on the display property
> states this:
>
> The value of the `display' property should be a display
> specification, or a list or vector containing several display
> specifications.
>
> Unfortunately, this is the only thing it states about the case where
> the display property is a list or vector of display specs.
> I searched for all occurrences of the words “list” and “vector” in
> that section of the manual and could not find more precise details.
>
> I would guess from the above description that if the display property
> were a vector of display specs, then all of the things specified to be
> displayed would be shown from left to right. However, it seems that
> only the first one is used, which seems strange.
A vector or list is used for combining properties (where is makes
sense), not laying things out in sequence.
This passage from the comment of handle_single_display_spec is
relevant:
DISPLAY_REPLACED_P non-zero means that we previously saw a
display specification which already replaced text display
with something else, for example an image; we ignore such
properties after the first one has been processed.
Properties that don't "replace text with something else" include
`height', `raise', `space-width'. These can be combined.
Image slices use `slice' together with `image'.
--
Johan Bockgård
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2007-09-18 21:53 display property as display spec vector behavior unclear Joe Wells
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