From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use display text property with after-string?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 05:57:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737jpt4ru.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vawlqxin.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2016-10-21, at 22:04, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:41:21 +0200
>>
>> > The 'display' property doesn't support after-string, only the overlay
>> > properties do.
>>
>> I see. I was a bit afraid that is the case.
>>
>> Is there any other way to put some nonexistent text in the buffer?
>
> What's wrong with 'display' text property? Just make its value be a
> string, not '(after-string "something").
OK.
>> Overlays are not very good that, since I hear many overlays in a buffer
>> may slow things down. My use case is as follows: I want to write
>> a function which will find all the dates in the US format (M/D/Y) in the
>> buffer and put a date in a sane format (maybe together with something
>> like "3 days ago" or "tomorrow") next to them. (That would be very
>> useful for me, since I sometimes get emails from Americans, and dealing
>> with dates in M/D/Y format is a huge cognitive load for me;-).)
>
> The 'display' text property whose value is a string causes that string
> be displayed _instead_ of the text covered by the text property.
> Which sounds exactly what you want. One caveat: you cannot move
> cursor through the display string (the same is true for
> after-strings).
Thanks. It was not exactly what I wanted: I wanted a fragment of buffer
containing e.g.
10/25/16
to display as
10/25/16 [2016-10-25, 3 days from today]
Of course, I can include the original text in the `display' property,
but as you have pointed out, this is not the same (though I'm not even
shure whether it's not actually _better_).
Thanks a lot,
--
Marcin Borkowski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-22 3:57 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
2016-10-21 19:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-21 20:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 3:57 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-10-22 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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