From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86r6jfz3bb.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86bqaixmxk.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86bqabjozh.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86y7ddipg5.fsf_-_@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86zlxtdopx.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86640gj4fx.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86wsswhp7w.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86lk9cf3uq.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194394553 1635 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2007 00:15:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 00:15:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 07 01:15:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IpYaK-0001dO-9U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:15:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpYa6-0007So-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpYZe-0007Ee-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpYZb-0007CH-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpYZb-0007CA-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpYZa-0002Ej-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpYZY-0003M8-14; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:15:08 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:30:52 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82690 Archived-At: BTW, IIUC the problem with linum.el is Emacs's handling of margin text: it makes no sense (to me, and apparently to linum.el) for the text displayed in the margin to inherit face properties from the buffer point where that text is "located". We could easily turn off this inheritance entirely for margin text. If we are sure that is the right thing to do.