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From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Editing of invisible text
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:32:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50810260632k73eaab70re364362b3f62845d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Emacs lets you edit invisible text. That is perhaps not bad, but it is
bad that you can't see what you are doing when you are editing
invisible text. Here is a suggestion on how to make this better:

- Implement a minor mode that make all invisible text visible but with
a special face (or background color) that tells the user this is
really invisible text.

- Ask the user if she/he want to turn on this minor mode for the
buffer when invisible text is going to be changed.

- Of course add a variable to override this behaviour when needed ;-)




             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-26 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-26 13:32 Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-10-27  2:22 ` Editing of invisible text Stefan Monnier

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