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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use display text property with after-string?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:35:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lgxirw7k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87funqtegs.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Fri,  21 Oct 2016 08:15:31 +0200)

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:15:31 +0200
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
> 
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> After C-x C-e with point at the end, I see this:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
> 
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> but I expected this:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a commentcomment
> 
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

The 'display' property doesn't support after-string, only the overlay
properties do.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-21  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21  6:15 How to use display text property with after-string? Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21  6:59 ` Joost Kremers
2016-10-21  7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-21 19:41   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21 20:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22  3:57       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-22 19:49     ` Stefan Monnier

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