From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Q] How to make text invisible without modifying the buffer? Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:03:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmugbm19.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bl606hiq.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14015"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 14 08:04:04 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEmm2-0003Q4-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 08:04:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54834 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEmm0-000630-OW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 02:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEmlg-00062p-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 02:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEmlg-0003AH-GK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 02:03:40 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2420 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEmlg-0003kM-2D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2021 02:03:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bl606hiq.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Rodrigo Morales on Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:39:57 -0500) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132530 Archived-At: > From: Rodrigo Morales > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:39:57 -0500 > > #+BEGIN_SRC elisp > (put-text-property (point-at-bol) (+ (point-at-eol) 1) 'invisible t) > #+END_SRC > > The problem with this expression is the fact that it modifies the > current buffer and I don't want this to happen, so my question is: How > to make a line invisible without making the buffer to think that a > modification has been performed? The usual method is to wrap your code in with-silent-modifications.