From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: displaying margins leads to Emacs hanging
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834jr9lv4b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACJP=3=ewgNbEJDXBO2t60by_BBeMsvwy2Hi4hs5nA009XOs6A@mail.gmail.com> (message from dalanicolai on Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:17:24 +0100)
> From: dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:17:24 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> This is great! Indeed, it works perfectly now.
> I think using the margins is just much more elegant.
>
> Although, I might have read about this behavior somewhere,
> obviously, it was not clear to me that `erase-buffer` does not
> remove the overlays. Maybe a warning/reminder about this could
> be added in the 'erase-buffer' docstring? What do you think?
> I would be happy to create a patch for that (if desired).
This is not related to erasing a buffer, it is related to deleting
text "covered" by the overlay. What happens in that case depends on
the 'evaporate' property of the overlay, which is already described in
the ELisp manual, see the node "Overlay Properties" there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-25 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-24 19:29 displaying margins leads to Emacs hanging dalanicolai
2023-02-24 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 20:26 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-24 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 20:41 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-24 20:53 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-24 21:19 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-24 21:43 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-25 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-25 13:17 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-25 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-06 22:51 ` dalanicolai
2023-02-24 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-24 21:41 ` dalanicolai
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