From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overalays and point-entered Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5e3a506e0909101709u2259d56h25f3ef1ec67326aa@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252634301 6143 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2009 01:58:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nathaniel Flath Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 03:58:13 2009 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 1MlvOt-0006L2-80 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:58:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlvOs-0002T5-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlvOm-0002PF-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlvOh-0002Fw-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56058 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlvOh-0002FZ-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.248.154.183] (port=52843 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlvOh-0005sm-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:59 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkEAIlLqUpFpZBe/2dsb2JhbACBU90XhBgFh20 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,367,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="45549429" Original-Received: from 69-165-144-94.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.144.94]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 10 Sep 2009 21:56:27 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 063207F87; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:57:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5e3a506e0909101709u2259d56h25f3ef1ec67326aa@mail.gmail.com> (Nathaniel Flath's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:09:21 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115181 Archived-At: > 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