From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it.
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:43:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190818194340.GE31509@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV--wYzEK=xU4ug=A4rjEF2ygb+eow-N8R_PFzwe1EAgmYA@mail.gmail.com>
Hello, Noam.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 15:30:11 -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 14:44, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > I don't think there's anything else in Emacs at the moment that could
> > take its place. The essence here is being able to insert "=>" onto the
> > display _without_ disturbing the horizontal alignment, as needed by
> > debuggers. Maybe, in addition to before-strings and after-strings we
> > need "overlay-strings" (with a better name than that), which would cover
> > up the underlying text. Or do we already have something like that?
> I think the 'display' property would work for that.
Yes. Thanks! I didn't know that.
So we could supersede the (current) overlay arrow with a mechanism using
the display text property or overlay.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-18 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-18 13:48 [Patch]: Allow overlay arrows to be inserted before the text at column zero rather than splatting it Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 16:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 18:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-18 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 19:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-19 2:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-19 19:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-08-20 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-18 19:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-18 19:43 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2019-08-19 9:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-19 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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