From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Highlighted text which is not part of the buffer? Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:50:25 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85vecn8oni.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1184353027.899593.10380@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184398841 3915 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2007 07:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 14 09:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9cF5-0005LF-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I9cF4-00064W-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!212.27.60.7.MISMATCH!feeder1-1.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BqOZcLXCOaqpwkimblxxbkvHLSQ= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jul 2007 08:50:27 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a360eaa9.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=d>@kXHC75]cg`45cDR8l?oA9EHlD; 3Ycb4Fo<]lROoRagUcjd<3m<; b[54Uo9N>A9m1_LiI6ENVam3>5MOK`; S:bhJl05ghY; bENno< List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45676 Archived-At: "spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" writes: > I created an empty overlay with before-string set and added a face > property, _Where_ did you add the face property? To the overlay? To the before-string? > but the before-string is not highlighted. (If the overlay is not > empty, there is some real text in it then the before string is > highlighted together with the real text.) Probably only if the face property is inherited to the left. > Is there an other way to show text with face properties which is not > part of the buffer? Put the face property on the before-string (I'd prefer using the 'display property). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum