From: "Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Retrieve front-advance from make-overlay
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:19:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53214.128.165.123.18.1169054383.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
[Sorry if this is a repeat post and/or doesn't go into the thread
properly; my mailer didn't like my first attempt.]
> It was untested, and naturally, it is wrong. Both calls to
> move-overlay. You have to use
>
> (move-overlay ov 1 1 (current-buffer))
>
> and
>
> (move-overlay ov start end buf)
>
> instead, respectively. There are probably more errors: I still did not
test it.
It seems to me that you should put the overlay on a single character in a
buffer and then insert once on either side of that character. Would a
0-length overlay with front-advance but not rear-advance actually sit on
the range n to n-1 if you inserted before it?
Davis
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next reply other threads:[~2007-01-17 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-17 17:19 Stuart D. Herring [this message]
2007-01-17 18:57 ` Retrieve front-advance from make-overlay Stefan Monnier
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2007-01-14 21:04 Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-15 1:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-15 1:29 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-15 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-01-15 9:18 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-15 9:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-01-15 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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