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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay?
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:51:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6g5tc51.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837db92obd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2022 12:31:02 +0200")

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-09 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87iluttfdz.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
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 [this message]
2022-01-09 12:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-09 12:14         ` Po Lu

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