From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info mutilates user overlays.
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:14:35 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310011914.h91JEZU01874@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvfr8eukm.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (message from Stefan Monnier on 01 Oct 2003 13:33:45 -0400)
Stefan monnier wrote:
How do you highlight? What do you highlight? What for?
In the very concrete case at hand, I was highlighting regions with
non-nil `help-echo' property, using overlays with background color.
The code works for properties other than help-echo too. Again, in the
concrete case at hand, I was doing it explicitly to check whether my
code would work in *info* buffers. But I have used overlays
personally for a variety of reasons, for instance, to highlight for
emphasis. I guess I could just tell in the documentation that the
highlighting can easily "evaporate" in certain buffers, such as *info*
and *help*. The user can always re-highlight. For my unrelated
personal uses (that can not be reconstructed from information contained
in the buffer) I might have to save my overlays in a file to do that.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 2:16 Info mutilates user overlays Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 2:26 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-01 2:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 4:00 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 4:37 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-01 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-01 14:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-01 18:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-02 13:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-01 19:14 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2003-10-01 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-01 21:11 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-01 23:18 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-10-02 0:38 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-01 15:10 ` Luc Teirlinck
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