From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [BUG] Empty string as display property Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:09:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200505131609.j4DG9v202409@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <4284C993.1060004@math.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116001247 24586 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2005 16:20:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 16:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 13 18:20:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWct4-0007fi-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:19:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWd2F-0002wx-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWcyh-0001di-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWcyg-0001dH-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWcxn-00013q-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DWcr9-0007dg-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 12:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4DGAYog001160; Fri, 13 May 2005 11:10:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j4DG9v202409; Fri, 13 May 2005 11:09:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: larsh@math.ku.dk In-reply-to: <4284C993.1060004@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Fri, 13 May 2005 17:36:51 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37087 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37087 Lars Hansen wrote: An empty string as display property has the advantage over the invisible property that it can be made conditional. That is not what the display property is for. If you want to make text invisible, use the invisibility property. The display property is already abused enough as is. There are things like buffer-invisibility-spec for conditional invisibility. Sincerely, Luc.