From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:34:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IYOzG-0006LE-Ag@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867immbpvd.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (message from Joe Wells on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:07:34 +0100)
> The documentation leads me to believe that the before-string and
> display properties of an overlay should be orthogonal. However, the
> before-string is not displayed if the display property is the empty
> string.
>
> I think the thing to do is document this.
This is not clear. For example, linum.el makes empty overlays with
before-string properties and no display property at all. And this
works. So why shouldn't it work when there is a display property that
is the empty string?
Logically it ought to work, but do we have anyone who can debug it and
fix it? Would you like to debug it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <86k5qnfxgn.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk>
2007-09-19 15:48 ` before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 16:07 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-20 16:34 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-09-20 17:35 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-23 9:07 ` Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E1IYOzG-0006LE-Ag@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).