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 to use display text property with after-string? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:35:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83lgxirw7k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87funqtegs.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477035375 22090 195.159.176.226 (21 Oct 2016 07:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:36:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 09:36:11 2016 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 1bxUMn-0002jm-OM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:35:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxUMq-0000Ft-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxUMP-0000Fn-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxUML-0005We-JJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxUML-0005Wa-GR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2658 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bxUMK-0008SI-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:35:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <87funqtegs.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:15:31 +0200) 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:111581 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > 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.