From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nested display strings
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:07:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fwp8buk3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB32B96.50409@online.de>
> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:42:14 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> (defvar myov2 (make-overlay 29 43))
> (defvar myov1 (make-overlay 16 51))
> (overlay-put myov2 'display "STRING2")
> (overlay-put myov1 'display "STRING1")
>
> ie if the wider overlay is applied last, it should take all.
Why would the order of evaluation matter here? After everything is
evaluated, the display engine just sees a buffer with two overlays
it's got to display. How is it to know which one was applied first,
and why should it care?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-23 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 16:44 Nested display strings Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 19:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-04-23 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-23 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-23 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 23:20 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-24 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-24 5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-24 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 19:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-25 19:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-25 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:04 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-26 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-26 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:35 ` chad
2011-04-26 18:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-26 19:19 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-28 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-28 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-28 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 20:51 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-27 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 14:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-04-24 5:19 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-24 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-24 6:22 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-24 6:31 ` Andreas Röhler
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