From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I remove effects of text properties in 'before-string Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:00:15 +0200 Message-ID: <86vaj7xje8.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvyrabkk.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508688357 10297 195.159.176.226 (22 Oct 2017 16:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:05:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 22 18:05:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Ikz-000133-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:05:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Il7-0006pE-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Ikd-0006p9-Rw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6IkZ-0001Df-LS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45012 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6IkZ-0001CO-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6IkL-0004Ou-Dz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:05:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:9lS2ttJrKEwsJzvWFjtVxlpNj9Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114600 Archived-At: > emacs -Q > > (set-window-margins (get-buffer-window) 20 0) > (overlay-put (make-overlay (point) (point)) > 'before-string (propertize "." 'display > `((margin left-margin) ,"Hi there!"))) > (hl-line-mode) I don't know what you're up to but in general you can use `buffer-substring-no-properties'. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573