From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
To: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>,
emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Hiding text
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:24:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D67573.8010107@gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D674C0.7070709@gatech.edu>
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Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> thorne wrote:
>> I tried doing this with font-lock, and was able to do everything i
>> wanted, except that the underscores--which i make invisible--leave a
>> blank space instead of completely disappearing.
>>
>> So, maybe a more focused version of my question would be: is there a
>> way to selectively hide strings of text in a buffer such that they
>> still exist if you kill the region they are in and yank it somewhere
>> else?
>
> Try facemenu-set-invisible . I found that by running C-h a (apropos)
> invisible (People were discussing invisible text a few weeks ago).
Also, you should probably use facemenu-set-intangible. Otherwise, the
text won't be there, but the cursor will still "pause" as you move past
it. There's probably a way to set both these properties at once.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-17 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 3:03 Hiding text thorne
2007-02-17 3:21 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-02-17 3:24 ` Matthew Flaschen [this message]
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2007-02-17 5:28 ` thorne
2007-02-17 4:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-17 5:48 ` thorne
2007-02-17 6:34 ` Matthew Flaschen
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