From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: overlay debugging Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 01:45:46 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lm9t2st1.fsf@emacswiki.org> References: <200206051118363.SM00219@BSI011.bsiag.com> <1023302770.13490.1005.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023320558 6681 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2002 23:42:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:42:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17FkQD-0001jV-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 01:42:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FkPo-0008Me-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from news.swissonline.ch ([62.2.16.82]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17FkOj-0008BO-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 19:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by news.swissonline.ch (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g55Ner329459; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 01:40:53 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@gnu.org Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6I/T+LC7glE8XTfB/VY0OUMQMIc= Original-Path: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.162.232.63 Original-X-Trace: news.swissonline.ch 1023320453 217.162.232.63 (6 Jun 2002 01:40:53 +0200) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@swissonline.ch Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1827 walters@gnu.org (Colin Walters) writes: > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 05:18, Alex Schroeder wrote: > >> When I want to check why a given character in a given buffer looks and >> acts the way it does, I like to use M-x list-text-properties. What I >> like about it is the list of all text-properties used and their >> values. Now if the information I want is in overlays, I cannot get to >> it. I must use M-: (setq o (overlays-at (point))) switch to the >> scratch buffer and test some of the properties myself explicitly, >> there is no way to "just list" them. > > Does the function `describe-text-at' do what you want? The function seems to be undefined in GNU Emacs 21.2.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-05-28 on confusibombus... Alex. -- http://www.electronicintifada.net/diaries/index.html http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/US-Israel/hr2506c.html