From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: overlay start/end marker access funs?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:07:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203121807.g2CI7ud15007@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: buoeliq5wi4.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp
> I wanted to augment `describe-text-at' to print the start/end
> insertion-types of overlays, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
> actually get that info in elisp.
>
> So, I thought it might be nice to add `overlay-start-marker'and
> `overlay-end-marker' access functions -- then one could use
> `marker-insertion-type' to do what I want.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with allowing elisp access to these markers?
> (or is there one already, and I'm missing it?)
>
> [If there is a problem, I guess something like `overlay-start-insertion-type'
> and `overlay-end-insertion-type' would be OK, then.]
The lack of this functionality is already noted in subr.el in
the definition of `copy-overlay'. So I agree it would be good to have.
Stefan
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2002-03-12 2:51 overlay start/end marker access funs? Miles Bader
2002-03-12 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-03-12 20:29 ` Richard Stallman
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