From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: indentation via text or overlay property?
Date: 04 Jun 2003 17:16:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lof1dh7bc.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EDE44C1.9040500@yahoo.com
>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is there a way to implement indentation via a text property like left-margin
> or an overlay property like before-string?
(put-text-property start end 'display '(space :align-to N))
will make the text between `start' and `end' appear like a space
that ends at column N.
This is at least documented in the NEWS file of Emacs-21.1, and
I'd expect there to be something about it as well in the elisp manual.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-04 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-04 19:13 indentation via text or overlay property? Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-04 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-06-06 16:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-06 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-06 18:09 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-06 19:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-09 21:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-09 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
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