From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to remove a property from an overlay?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:45:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6m2dg7o.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveebfinap.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 2021-07-30, at 22:02, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski [2021-07-30 20:31:35] wrote:
>> is there any way I can remove property `prop' from overlay `ovl' besides
>> (overlay-put ovl 'prop nil)
>> which does not really remove it, only sets it to nil?
>
> The recommendation is to try and make sure you always give semantics to
> those properties such that nil behaves the same as the absence of
> the property.
Could that be put in the manual?
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-31 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-30 18:31 How to remove a property from an overlay? Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-30 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 19:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-30 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-31 8:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-30 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-31 8:45 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2021-07-31 13:15 ` Fu Yuan
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