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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Text property 'intangible and fontification
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:05:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E383C2.2060600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5y4jup2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I think I noticed a problem with nxml-mode (not part of Emacs) and
>> fontification when an overlay has the property 'intangible.
> 
> Since `intangible' is known to have many adverse effects, it's important to
> describe this overlay: who made it, why, ...

I made it. I removed it.

>> nxml-mode does its own fontification since it anyway parses the buffer
>> contents. What should fontification code do when there are some overlays
>> like this? Or text properties. Should it let bind
>> inhibit-point-motion-hooks' to t, or? What does other fontification code do
>> in Emacs?
> 
> I strongly recommend to not touch `intangible' even with a ten foot pole.


Yes, it is not very well implemented as you might remember I thought 
earlier. I was just looking for an advice how to handle it with 
fontification.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-26 22:05 Text property 'intangible and fontification Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-27  0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-27  1:05   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]

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