From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Showing text in a buffer only when point is in a region
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:45:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvebnszf.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170128124610.GB7072@tuxteam.de> (tomas's message of "Sat, 28 Jan 2017 13:46:10 +0100")
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 13:46:10 +0100 <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 06:03:57PM +0530, Narendra Joshi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to be able to keep some text visible in a buffer only when the
>> point is in a region. The moment the point leaves that region, I would
>> like to make the text invisible. How can I do this? I don't want to run
>> a timer which checks if the point is in the region or outside.
>
> See "Overlays" or "Text Properties" in the Emacs Lisp manual. You can set
> "point-entered" and "point-left" special properties (see "Properties with
> Special Meanings", which are hooks to be called at those events.
As of Emacs 25.1 (quoting the Info node referred to):
"These properties are obsolete; please use ‘cursor-sensor-functions’ instead."
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-28 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-28 12:33 Showing text in a buffer only when point is in a region Narendra Joshi
2017-01-28 12:46 ` tomas
2017-01-28 14:45 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2017-01-28 15:26 ` tomas
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