Re: Overlays category - could this be made buffer local?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>      If OVERLAY does not record any value for that
>>      property, but it does have a `category' property which is a
>>      symbol, that symbol's PROP property is used.  Otherwise, the value
>>      is `nil'.
>>
>> If 'category where allowed to be a symbol then buffer local values could
>> be set.
> 
> `category' is already a symbol.  I presume you're saying, "if the user
> were able to specify a custom forwarding symbol to use instead of
> `category', then ..."

Sorry, I meant "to be a variable containing a symbol". Would that be any 
problem?

> I'm not sure it's a good idea though, as in many cases overlay lookups
> are implicit, so there's no easy/clean way to specify what symbol to use
> (instead of `category').
> 
> -Miles
>