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From: thorne <thorne@timbral.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hiding text
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:48:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ejopnxlr.fsf@timbral.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvhctlie7i.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> My crystal ball tells me you did the "invisible" improperly (e.g. by setting
> their foreground color to the background color or some other hack).
> If you place an "invisible" property on those chars, they really will not
> appear at all, not even as spaces.

Your crystal ball is wise...

> Try font-lock rules like
>
>      (defvar foo-mode-font-lock-keywords
>        '(("\\(_\\)\\([^_ \t\n][^_\n]*\\)\\(_\\)"
>           (1 '(face nil invisible t))
>           (2 'italics)
>           (3 '(face nil invisible t)))))

Ahh, so i had been on the right track.  I had actualy been trying
this, but was not able to get it working because i couldn't follow the

,----
| FACENAME is an expression whose value is the face name to use.
| Instead of a face, FACENAME can evaluate to a property list
| of the form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...)  
`----

Now i'm starting to get it.  Thank you.

-- 
þ    theron tlax    þ

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-17  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-17  3:03 Hiding text thorne
2007-02-17  3:21 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-02-17  3:24   ` Matthew Flaschen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4638.1171682684.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-17  5:28     ` thorne
2007-02-17  4:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-17  5:48   ` thorne [this message]
2007-02-17  6:34   ` Matthew Flaschen

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