From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting text properties for strings (or string variables)? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:05:53 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDE5F31.7070906@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054762428 16025 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 21:33:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 21:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 23:33:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Nfq1-0003ue-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:30:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NfXB-0002dw-4A for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 17:11:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054760747 11309140 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114140 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10636 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10636 Florian von Savigny wrote: > That kindles me to ask if there is no function to set the text > properties for a (sub)string. The available functions which set text > properties seem to work only on buffers. | set-text-properties is a built-in function. | (set-text-properties START END PROPERTIES &optional OBJECT) | | Completely replace properties of text from START to END. | The third argument PROPERTIES is the new property list. | The optional fourth argument, OBJECT, | is the string or buffer containing the text. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | If OBJECT is omitted or nil, it defaults to the current buffer. | If PROPERTIES is nil, the effect is to remove all properties from | the designated part of OBJECT. -- Kevin Rodgers