From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:15:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86r6jfz3bb.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86bqaixmxk.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86bqabjozh.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86y7ddipg5.fsf_-_@macs.hw.ac.uk> <86zlxtdopx.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86640gj4fx.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194315478 16724 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2007 02:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Joe Wells Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 06 03:18:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IpE0s-0002T6-KS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:17:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpE0h-0002UG-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpDz0-0000xh-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpDz0-0000x4-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpDyz-0000wx-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpDyz-0007NB-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpDyw-0003en-Pq; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:15:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <86640gj4fx.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (message from Joe Wells on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:51:30 +0000) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82613 Archived-At: I would like to strongly suggest that overlay before-string, display, and after-string properties should *not* be affected by the text-property face properties in the buffer. That would be easy to implement, but it seems to me that in some cases text properties should influence these strings, just as region highlighting should. Since various features use overlays to do something analogous to region highlighting, that suggests that in SOME cases we do want one overlay's faces to affect the strings provided by another overlay, as you asked for recently. A study of the interaction of those features with something like linum might make it possible to figure out some good rules for such interaction.