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From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Overlays' `before-string' not displayed in left margin?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:38:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6E1E63.9000201@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50907271332jf9b67cvf2512a4e80e626e4@mail.gmail.com>

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I put this on an overlay's before-string property
> 
>   ((margin left-margin)
>    "1 php-mode")
> 
> but I see nothing in the left margin (with left-margin-width set to 20).
> 
> Is this a bug or do I misunderstand something? Doesn't it work for overlays?
> 
> 

try e.g.

(overlay-put ov 'before-string
	     (propertize " " 'display
			 '((margin left-margin) "1 php-mode")))


i.e. a margin display property on string that is the before-string 
you're putting on the overlay...








      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-27 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-27 20:32 Overlays' `before-string' not displayed in left margin? Lennart Borgman
2009-07-27 21:38 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]

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