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From: dont.spam.earl@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How to show (text-properties-at (point)) in minibuffer?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 22:18:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6c8a959-72b5-4673-a172-a4d8f10cbb55@googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I'm customizing my shell mode and noticing some regions have unexpected faces. To debug this, I want the minibuffer to list the faces at the current point (from 'text-properties-at) and automatically update as the point moves. I've tried this a few ways but haven't gotten it to work.

I tried customizing the mode-line-format variable, yielding this line in my .emacs file. It didn't work:
  '(mode-line-format (quote ("%e" mode-line-front-space mode-line-mule-info mode-line-client mode-line-modified mode-line-remote mode-line-frame-identification mode-line-buffer-identification "   " mode-line-position (vc-mode vc-mode) "  " mode-line-modes mode-line-misc-info mode-line-end-spaces (:eval (text-properties-at (point))))))

This also doesn't work:
(setq global-mode-string
	  (append global-mode-string
			  (list '(:eval (text-properties-at (point))))))

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks!

Earl


             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-15  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-15  5:18 dont.spam.earl [this message]
2014-05-15  9:47 ` How to show (text-properties-at (point)) in minibuffer? Michael Heerdegen
2014-05-15 12:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-15 13:35     ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1401.1400160984.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-15 17:33       ` dont.spam.earl

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