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From: Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: overlay debugging
Date: 05 Jun 2002 14:46:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1023302770.13490.1005.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206051118363.SM00219@BSI011.bsiag.com>

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 05:18, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> When I want to check why a given character in a given buffer looks and
> acts the way it does, I like to use M-x list-text-properties.  What I
> like about it is the list of all text-properties used and their
> values.  Now if the information I want is in overlays, I cannot get to
> it.  I must use M-: (setq o (overlays-at (point))) switch to the
> scratch buffer and test some of the properties myself explicitly,
> there is no way to "just list" them.

Does the function `describe-text-at' do what you want?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-05 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-05  9:18 overlay debugging Alex Schroeder
2002-06-05 18:46 ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-06-05 23:45   ` Alex Schroeder
2002-06-06  1:06     ` Colin Walters

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