From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: overlays? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:17:13 +0100 Organization: WMI UAM Message-ID: <20140318071713.6999161a@aga-netbook> References: <87vbvcgu7g.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395123448 1683 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2014 06:17:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:17:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 07:17:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WPnLE-0001vx-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:17:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPnLE-0004Gs-B9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPnL0-0004G9-8e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPnKv-0004pL-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:52454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPnKv-0004pF-7j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353B842065 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:17:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iBAeluJKmd7L for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:17:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from aga-netbook (99-234.echostar.pl [213.156.99.234]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 039EF42062 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:17:14 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87vbvcgu7g.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:808:114:2::50 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96573 Archived-At: Dnia 2014-03-18, o godz. 02:40:35 lee napisa=C5=82(a): > Hi, >=20 > 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, --=20 Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University