From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting column position accounting for overlays
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 20:44:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C25983.5040702@thregr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831tfhu5ge.fsf@gnu.org>
On 05/08/15 17:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I would almost have expected something to extract the visualized string
>> between two points, like `buffer-substring' but iterating through
>> overlays; but couldn't find any (did I miss it?)
>
> The overlay strings are directly accessible via 'overlay-get', so why
> would anyone need the feature you expected to exist?
I don't think we're on the same line of thought.
The usage scenario is pretty simple: assume a terminal display.
I want to determine the current /visual/ column at point.
(current-column) will not account for overlays that have a 'display
property of a different length than the overlay range.
It's really that simple.
The second part is a consequence: if I want to have a string of the
current line as seen by the user, I have to manually iterate through
overlays, handle 'display manually and reassemble the line myself.
There's no buffer-substring equivalent that gives me the string "with
'display overlays" between two points.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-05 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 20:01 Getting column position accounting for overlays Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-05 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-05 9:10 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-05 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-05 18:44 ` Yuri D'Elia [this message]
2015-08-05 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-07 17:13 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-07 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 14:31 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-08 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 15:19 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-08 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 16:29 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-08-08 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 17:22 ` Yuri D'Elia
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