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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Retrieve front-advance from make-overlay
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:29:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45AAD917.30400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4pqtkrto.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Is it possible to retrieve from an overlay the parameters front-advance and
>> rear-advance that was given to make-overlay?
> 
>> Without that it is not possible to make a new copy of an overlay AFAICS.
> 
> The source code of `copy-overlay' answers this question.

Thanks. Indeed it does ;-)  -- BTW copy-overlay is not mentioned in Info.


> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
> PS: The comment says "easily" because you can of course insert+remove a char
> to check whether the position of the overlay's boundary stays "in front"
> or not.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-15  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-14 21:04 Retrieve front-advance from make-overlay Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-15  1:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-15  1:29   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-01-15  7:20     ` David Kastrup
2007-01-15  9:18       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-15  9:59         ` David Kastrup
2007-01-15 15:39           ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-17 17:19 Stuart D. Herring
2007-01-17 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier

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