From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems extracting a text property Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wswrfs29.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185223281 16117 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2007 20:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:41:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 23 22:41:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ID4iU-0007ga-Hh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:41:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ID4iS-0006wp-Vd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:13:10 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tON83R6OsWPcjVz0zfmKX8m/GkA= Original-Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-IpN0/vJxF344H044p3IqTeMDPqo3JDeKrzMNMLGwHMAcef0yI3mIuiL3X5mvkOCXzsxOuhEncuC+eVb!Ag3LfQ8u6AXmkzKBR0oTJS4RBWxjMYT45qd6e1iRxxgPaUFqxpqGiTka4u7J9dYiggaEBPCGvo9j!QaZ69QiYifgjnPxDzw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150318 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45898 Archived-At: > on a link in an info buffer the text has properies like these: > ,---- > | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight > | help-echo mouse-2: go to (libc)Special Functions) > | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight > | help-echo mouse-2: go to (libext2fs.info)) > | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight > | help-echo mouse-2: go to (libidn)Invoking idn) > | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight > | help-echo mouse-2: go to (nano)) > | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight > | help-echo mouse-2: go to (recode)) > `---- > Now I'd like to extract the link locations, e.g. "(libc)Special > Functions". But how? The code activated by mouse-2 does not use the text-properties, but the buffer's text instead. So take a look at the text covered by those properties (and beware that some part of it may be invisible). Stefan