From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Q] How to make text invisible without modifying the buffer?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 02:01:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czqg6gio.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bl606hiq.fsf@gmail.com
Rodrigo Morales wrote:
> To begin writing this mode, I was wondering: How to make
> a line invisible? and came up with the following expression
> which accomplishes that
>
> #+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
`narrow-to-region'?
Restrict editing in this buffer to the current region.
The rest of the text becomes temporarily invisible and
untouchable but is not deleted; if you save the buffer in
a file, the invisible text is included in the file. C-x
n w makes all visible again.
Flirting with not disaster perhaps but ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-14 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-13 23:39 [Q] How to make text invisible without modifying the buffer? Rodrigo Morales
2021-08-14 0:01 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
[not found] ` <87im0824b4.fsf@gmail.com>
2021-08-14 3:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-14 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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