From: PJ Weisberg <pjweisberg@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: overlays vs text properties
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:07:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXTkJmDBfY_xcz9Cqit=T2mi2XODRt4C__Zkbwt7H6weLZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqleiqk7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
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.
--
-PJ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-13 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-13 6:12 overlays vs text properties Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-13 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 7:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-13 7:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 7:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-13 8:07 ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2011-07-13 22:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-13 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 14:55 ` Drew Adams
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