From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I remove effects of text properties in 'before-string Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:15:37 +0300 Message-ID: <834lqrayti.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tvyrabkk.fsf@gmail.com> <838tg3b27v.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2tv9knb.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508692588 12304 195.159.176.226 (22 Oct 2017 17:16:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:16:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 22 19:16:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Jr3-00005p-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:16:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6JrA-0005YX-5m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Jqj-0005YF-KK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Jqg-0004aF-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Jqg-0004a9-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1701 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e6Jqf-0001AL-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:15:42 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2tv9knb.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Amos Bird on Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:07:04 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114606 Archived-At: > From: Amos Bird > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:07:04 +0800 > > Hi, could you show the elisp code that resolves this? I don't > quite understand how to give a distinct face. Here, this simple variation of your original recipe will display the string in the margin using the 'default' face: (set-window-margins (get-buffer-window) 20 0) (setq ovstring (propertize "Hi, there!" 'face 'default)) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< (overlay-put (make-overlay (point) (point)) 'before-string (propertize "." 'display `((margin left-margin) ,ovstring))) (hl-line-mode) The line marked with "<<<<<" is the main part of the solution.