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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: How can I remove effects of text properties in 'before-string
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:33:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c67918fc-4d01-4b11-a42b-3b29522d46a1@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<838tg3b27v.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > (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)
> >
> > The string "Hi there!" is also highlighted. How can I disable
> > that?
> 
> Give the string a distinct face.

Why doesn't it use the `default' face?  If no `face'
property is given to the string, why would the effective
face be something different from `default'?

Where in the doc do we say that this should use a face
that is used in an overlay placed on some buffer positions?

Is this behavior documented?  I couldn't find anything
about it, but it might well be there somewhere.  I looked
in the doc about overlays and the doc about the margin,
but perhaps it is there and I overlooked or misread it.

Or is this perhaps a bug?  For what reason should the
properties of an overlay on some parts of a buffer
affect the appearance of the margin?



       reply	other threads:[~2017-10-22 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<87tvyrabkk.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<838tg3b27v.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-10-22 16:33   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-10-22 16:50     ` How can I remove effects of text properties in 'before-string Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<837evnazze.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-10-22 17:32       ` Drew Adams
2017-10-27 14:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-22  7:25 Amos Bird
2017-10-22  7:43 ` Amos Bird
2017-10-22 16:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-10-22 17:07   ` Amos Bird
2017-10-22 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-22 17:07   ` Amos Bird
2017-10-22 17:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-22 18:08       ` Amos Bird
2017-10-22 18:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-22 19:12           ` Amos Bird
2017-10-22 19:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-23 12:57         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <<<87tvyrabkk.fsf@gmail.com>

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