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Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 29d1c72: Introduce new value t for
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> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:26:51 +0000
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> Should I have been aware of this?

What is "this" in this context?  The display margins or how to use
them with overlays?

> Somehow, in the elisp manual, it seems buried under several levels
> of chapters, sections, and sub-sections.

Well, Emacs is a large program, and display features in particular are
a legion...