From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill
Date: 06 Apr 2002 23:44:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1018154686.1186.13.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874rio5ide.fsf@alice.dynodns.net>
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 21:53, John Wiegley wrote:
> I agree. I think overlays have their place; for example they allow
> specialized font properties to be used in conjunction with font-lock,
> like highlighting certain terms temporarily. These overlays can then
> all be deleted in one go, without having to search the text.
You mean like changing the face of some text temporarily, and then just
going through the buffer and deleting all the overlays to remove that
face?
This approach fails when you use overlays for any other purpose in the
same buffer; you then can't just delete all the overlays.
If we had extents, the right way to solve that problem, in my opinion,
would be to add another extent with a higher priority face, and another
property like 'temporary t. Then, you could search for all extents with
a 'temporary property, and delete them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-07 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-03 23:23 Question about copy-region-as-kill John Wiegley
2002-04-05 6:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 21:39 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-06 8:21 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 10:29 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-06 17:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-06 18:05 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08 1:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-06 18:30 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-06 23:03 ` Alan Shutko
2002-04-07 7:42 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-08 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-08 21:21 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-09 9:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-09 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-09 10:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 13:05 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-09 13:24 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-10 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-10 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-10 16:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-11 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-11 16:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-12 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 10:36 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-04-09 15:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-09 21:28 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07 3:56 ` Tak Ota
2002-04-06 15:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-06 17:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-06 20:38 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 23:03 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 0:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 0:56 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 2:53 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07 4:44 ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-04-07 4:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 5:32 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 6:53 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 7:46 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 8:18 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 12:20 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-08 3:09 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-08 6:18 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 22:04 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-10 20:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 12:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 22:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 6:36 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07 6:55 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 23:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08 3:14 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-09 12:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 22:06 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 4:41 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 4:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 5:43 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 10:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-06 17:43 ` Kai Großjohann
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