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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: setting text properties for strings (or string variables)?
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 22:35:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brxdmvh3.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34r35wniq.fsf@russel.teuto37

Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:

> That kindles me to ask if there is no function to set the text
> properties for a (sub)string. The available functions which set text
> properties seem to work only on buffers.


,----[ C-h f propertize RET ]
| propertize is a built-in function.
| (propertize STRING &rest PROPERTIES)
| 
| Return a copy of STRING with text properties added.
| First argument is the string to copy.
| Remaining arguments form a sequence of PROPERTY VALUE pairs for text
| properties to add to the result.
| 
`----

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-04 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-04 21:17 setting text properties for strings (or string variables)? Florian von Savigny
2003-06-04 20:35 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-06-04 22:52   ` Florian von Savigny
2003-06-04 21:05 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-04 23:00   ` Florian von Savigny
2003-06-04 21:17 ` Stefan Monnier

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