From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 40213@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too!
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:45:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dud9uzh.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9mtn5as.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:25:31 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> It's one of those days. You see those marks "+", "A+" in the Summary
> Buffer,
>
> + 1 200306 16| |台電資訊處 :RE: Fartsworth Affair
> 1 200324 39| |John (John Lewddis) :[Maniphest] [Closed] T99999: Can not do any thing
> A+ 1 200324 24| |cclin :Re: Ants in pants
>
> but are too lazy to look up what they mean (in (info "(gnus) Other
> Marks") etc.).
>
> No worry, C-u C-x = (what-cursor-position) will tell you:
>
> There are text properties here:
> face gnus-summary-high-unread
> gnus-number 31074
>
> Ahhh... alas it could tell you more!
I think that's pretty much impossible -- there's no infrastructure in
Emacs to have it tell you what a random character in a generated buffer
means. And adding a bunch of text properties everywhere just in case
you wonder would be impractically slow.
So I'm closing this bug report.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-05 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-24 15:25 bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too! 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-05 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-08-06 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-06 7:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-06 23:33 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-07 7:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 3:01 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-07 7:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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