* Displaying the cursor inside an overlay? [not found] <87iluttfdz.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> @ 2022-01-09 9:41 ` Po Lu 2022-01-09 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Po Lu @ 2022-01-09 9:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Is there a way to display the (bar) cursor at some position inside an overlay's before or after string? Thanks. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay? 2022-01-09 9:41 ` Displaying the cursor inside an overlay? Po Lu @ 2022-01-09 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii 2022-01-09 10:51 ` Po Lu 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-01-09 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs > From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> > Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 17:41:44 +0800 > > Is there a way to display the (bar) cursor at some position inside an > overlay's before or after string? Use the 'cursor' property on the string. (This doesn't depend on the cursor's shape, so it should work with a bar cursor as it does with a block cursor.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay? 2022-01-09 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-01-09 10:51 ` Po Lu 2022-01-09 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Po Lu @ 2022-01-09 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: >> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> >> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 17:41:44 +0800 >> >> Is there a way to display the (bar) cursor at some position inside an >> overlay's before or after string? > > Use the 'cursor' property on the string. (This doesn't depend on the > cursor's shape, so it should work with a bar cursor as it does with a > block cursor.) Thanks, I must've missed that. I see it in the index of the Lisp reference manual now. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay? 2022-01-09 10:51 ` Po Lu @ 2022-01-09 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii 2022-01-09 12:14 ` Po Lu 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-01-09 12:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs > From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:51:54 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: > > > Use the 'cursor' property on the string. (This doesn't depend on the > > cursor's shape, so it should work with a bar cursor as it does with a > > block cursor.) > > Thanks, I must've missed that. I see it in the index of the Lisp > reference manual now. Yes, but judging by the code you installed, I'm not sure you used the property correctly. It's supposed to be on a single character, and AFAIU your use case its value should be t, not a number. (This discussion should probably move to emacs-devel.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay? 2022-01-09 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-01-09 12:14 ` Po Lu 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Po Lu @ 2022-01-09 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: >> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:51:54 +0800 >> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes: >> >> > Use the 'cursor' property on the string. (This doesn't depend on the >> > cursor's shape, so it should work with a bar cursor as it does with a >> > block cursor.) >> >> Thanks, I must've missed that. I see it in the index of the Lisp >> reference manual now. > Yes, but judging by the code you installed, I'm not sure you used the > property correctly. It's supposed to be on a single character, and > AFAIU your use case its value should be t, not a number. Ahh, thanks, I understand now. Dunno why it seemed to work: probably my input method is set up in some queer way. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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