From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: 59841@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a63z3x3b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt7zcjg2.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:38:53 +0600)
> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> Cc: 59841@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:38:53 +0600
>
> >> If that code is incorrect, the 'Display Margins' node of Emacs Lisp
> >> manual is also wrong. On the fourth paragraph, it says, "put a
> >> ‘before-string’ property on the text".
> >
> > When did you last read the text of that node? ;-)
>
> Now.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> To display something in the margin _in association with_ certain
> buffer text, without altering or preventing the display of that text,
> put a ‘before-string’ property on the text and put the margin display
> specification on the contents of the before-string.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Your files are outdated. This was changed on both development
branches.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-05 18:30 bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-05 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-06 4:34 ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-06 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-07 15:38 ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-08 4:34 ` Akib Azmain Turja via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-13 1:04 ` Stefan Kangas
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