From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to remove a property from an overlay?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveebfinap.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pmuzd56g.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski [2021-07-30 20:31:35] wrote:
> is there any way I can remove property `prop' from overlay `ovl' besides
> (overlay-put ovl 'prop nil)
> which does not really remove it, only sets it to nil?
The recommendation is to try and make sure you always give semantics to
those properties such that nil behaves the same as the absence of
the property.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-30 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-30 18:31 How to remove a property from an overlay? Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-30 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 19:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-30 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-31 8:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-30 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-07-31 8:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-31 13:15 ` Fu Yuan
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