From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Highlighted text which is not part of the buffer?
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:50:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85vecn8oni.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1184353027.899593.10380@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com
"spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> writes:
> I created an empty overlay with before-string set and added a face
> property,
_Where_ did you add the face property? To the overlay? To the
before-string?
> but the before-string is not highlighted. (If the overlay is not
> empty, there is some real text in it then the before string is
> highlighted together with the real text.)
Probably only if the face property is inherited to the left.
> Is there an other way to show text with face properties which is not
> part of the buffer?
Put the face property on the before-string (I'd prefer using the
'display property).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2007-07-13 18:57 Highlighted text which is not part of the buffer? spamfilteraccount
2007-07-14 6:50 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-07-14 8:32 ` spamfilteraccount
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