From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: larsh@math.ku.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Empty string as display property
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:13:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85mzqz82xh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505131609.j4DG9v202409@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Fri, 13 May 2005 11:09:57 -0500 (CDT)")
Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:
> Lars Hansen wrote:
>
> An empty string as display property has the advantage over the invisible
> property that it can be made conditional.
>
> That is not what the display property is for. If you want to make
> text invisible, use the invisibility property. The display property
> is already abused enough as is.
Whatever. But this is not an additional use of the display property,
but merely a special case of existing functionality. As such, it
should not fail, regardless whether or not other means to achieve
similar effects exist.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-13 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 15:36 [BUG] Empty string as display property Lars Hansen
2005-05-13 16:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-13 17:13 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-05-13 17:22 ` Lars Hansen
2005-05-16 22:15 ` Kim F. Storm
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