From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use display text property with after-string?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:35:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgxirw7k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87funqtegs.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:15:31 +0200)
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:15:31 +0200
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> After C-x C-e with point at the end, I see this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> but I expected this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a commentcomment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> What am I doing wrong?
The 'display' property doesn't support after-string, only the overlay
properties do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-21 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-21 6:15 How to use display text property with after-string? Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21 6:59 ` Joost Kremers
2016-10-21 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-21 19:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 3:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-22 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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