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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: overlays?
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:17:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318071713.6999161a@aga-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbvcgu7g.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de>

Dnia 2014-03-18, o godz. 02:40:35
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> napisał(a):

> Hi,
> 
> could someone please shed a light on the purpose of overlays?  I`m
> wondering under what circumstances they are used, or need to be used.
> Are they a feature that has been obsoleted by font-lock, or are they
> still needed?

With the risk that I say something stupid: isn't font-lock used for
syntax highlighting?  If yes, then: what about i-search (using
overlays) in a font-lock'ed buffer?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-18  1:40 overlays? lee
2014-03-18  6:17 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2014-03-19  7:22   ` overlays? lee
     [not found] <mailman.17396.1395106856.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-18 10:05 ` overlays? Joost Kremers
2014-03-19  7:38   ` overlays? lee
2014-03-19  8:21     ` overlays? Jambunathan K
     [not found]   ` <mailman.17502.1395216683.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-19  9:53     ` overlays? Joost Kremers
2014-03-19 12:29       ` overlays? Stefan

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