From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: displaying one character per line. Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:38:32 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87eksk27p3.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077612520 2270 80.91.224.253 (24 Feb 2004 08:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 09:48:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AvYEv-0001kr-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:48:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AvYD0-0006yN-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 03:46:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de (213.203.244.156) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077611894 50537921 I 213.203.244.156 ([73968] 10430) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qvnlmGlheWvQWbz2pS2suqYICKg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121169 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17122 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17122 Joe Corneli writes: > I don't mean just the search-and-replace solution: I am thinking > that the buffer should have the same content as it does normally, > just shown in this weird display mode. I'd also like to be able to > do a word-based version of the same thing: You can add overlays to the buffer with :before-string or :after-string properties. Not sure if this is also possible with text properties, though. If you need to use overlays, then you need to move the overlays when the buffer changes... longlines.el uses a similar mechanism to show hard newlines with the ¶ symbol. But I didn't write it, so I don't know how it is done. Kai