Re: overlays vs text properties

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Wed, Jul 13 2011, PJ Weisberg wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 13 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Sounds like overlays are better suited for this job, unless I'm
>>> missing something.
>>
>> Only that there's no good way of moving overlays based on the movement
>> of point!
>
> I don't know if there's a good way of "moving" text properties at all. ;-)
>
> I know of one library (Magit) that moves its "highlight" overlay to
> the current section in a post-command-hook.

Thanks for everyone's responses, it sounds like post-command-hook is the
way to go, though that had originally seemed like overkill. I should
have thought of Magit as a good example to copy…

Thanks again,
Eric