From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: overlay start/end marker access funs? Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:07:56 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203121807.g2CI7ud15007@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015956573 29503 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2002 18:09:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kqiL-0007fk-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:09:33 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16kqkc-000693-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:11:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kqi4-0000SW-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16kqgz-0000J7-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CI7ud15007; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:07:56 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Miles Bader Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1882 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1882 > 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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel