From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to use display text property with after-string?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:59:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twc6dw64.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87funqtegs.fsf@mbork.pl>
On Fri, Oct 21 2016, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to set the "display" text property so that some text is
> displayed
> after the buffer part I'm setting the property to. However, I
> can't do
> it. Consider an Elisp buffer with these contents:
>
> --8<---------------cut
> here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is
> cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut
> here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> After C-x C-e with point at the end, I see this:
>
> --8<---------------cut
> here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is
> cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut
> here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> but I expected this:
>
> --8<---------------cut
> here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a commentcomment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is
> cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut
> here---------------end--------------->8---
>
I'm getting this (Emacs 25.1.2):
,----
| ;; this is a comment
|
| (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is
cool!"))
`----
But looknig through the Elisp manual, it seems that `after-string'
is an overlay property, not a text property, so what you're after
probably isn't supposed to work.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-21 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-21 6:15 How to use display text property with after-string? Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21 6:59 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-10-21 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-21 19:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 3:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-22 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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