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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nathaniel Flath <flat0103@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overalays and point-entered
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvws46l0az.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e3a506e0909101709u2259d56h25f3ef1ec67326aa@mail.gmail.com> (Nathaniel Flath's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:09:21 -0700")

> Is there any particular reason that overlays don't have point-entered and
> point-left properties like text does?

Not that I know.  The only tricky part I can think of is what to do with
overlays that have a `window' property.

> I ended up wanting this functionality in some code I was writing, and
> was wondering if this was something that had been discussed before and
> decided against or if it just hasn't been implemented yet.

Care to describe your case?  Such point-motion hooks tend to be pretty
difficult to use.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  0:09 Overalays and point-entered Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-11  1:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
     [not found]   ` <5e3a506e0909101902h72747299u2e306830ce63b11d@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <jwvmy52p4re.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-11  4:08       ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-13 16:47         ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-14  1:16           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <5e3a506e0909140810r38a83a84l387fb6bafeb962c1@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <jwvzl8x49un.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-16 20:46                 ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-17  1:05                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-23 15:41                     ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-23 20:55                       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24  1:07                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-24 14:31                           ` Overlays " Stefan Monnier
2009-09-24 13:47                         ` Overalays " Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-24 14:04                           ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-09-24 14:26                             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-06 18:33                               ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-10-17 17:00                                 ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-10-18  1:09                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-22  3:35                                     ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-10-22 15:37                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-23 15:43                                         ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-10-25  2:30                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-27  8:42                                             ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-10-27 13:28                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-28  0:44                                                 ` Miles Bader
2009-10-31 17:03                                                   ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-11-06 14:54                                                     ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-12-09 23:41                                                       ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-12-10  3:37                                                         ` Nathaniel Flath
2009-12-10  8:32                                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-20 23:39                                                             ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-01-02  3:34                                                               ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-01-08  7:19                                                                 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-01-15  2:38                                                                   ` Stefan Monnier

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