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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multi line text in the margins
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 14:05:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czg8bh1h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YodW4W0Frm1HHdre@kurosawa.casa.net> (message from cage on Fri, 20 May 2022 10:52:49 +0200)

> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 10:52:49 +0200
> From: cage <cage-dev@twistfold.it>
> 
> I am exploring the margin feature of Emacs. I tried to write some text
> with a line break character inside, adding a text property like that:
> 
> (list :display (list '(margin margin-right) "foo\nbar"))
> 
> 
> But the line break character is printed as "^J" instead to be interpreted.
> 
> Now i wonder if there is a way to split text in lines on the margin.

You can't.  This is not supported (and will cause complications if we
did try supporting it, because margin text of line N could get in the
way of margin text of lines N+1, N+2, ...



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-20 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-20  8:52 multi line text in the margins cage
2022-05-20 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-20 12:03   ` cage

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