From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [SPAM?]: Re: confusing info in C-u C-x =
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:07:03 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051120.230703.141856924.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je1x1b4aex.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
> > What does the `From 14 to 15' mean?
>
> It is supposed to be the overlay start and end, but uses the overlay
> that has been put at the character in the help buffer instead of the
> original overlay. This was apparently a deliberate choice so that
> you can do C-u C-x = on a character in the *Help* buffer and still
> get information on the text properties and overlays:
For me (and probably many others) this information is completely
useless. Either it should become more meaningful or it should be
removed.
Werner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-20 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-20 9:55 confusing info in C-u C-x = Werner LEMBERG
2005-11-20 15:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-11-20 22:07 ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2005-11-21 7:35 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-08 1:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-12-09 9:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-09 15:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-09 21:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-09 23:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-10 16:18 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-11 0:46 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-10 22:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-11 0:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-12-11 16:49 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-20 23:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
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