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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Property for treating a string as a single character when deleting
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:16:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfvh2sb9n.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20140811T165919-200@post.gmane.org

> Is there a property or some other way to treat a string 
> as a single character?

You can make the string be a single char, with a `display' property that
makes it display as something else.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-12  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-11 15:02 Property for treating a string as a single character when deleting Tom
2014-08-12  2:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.6973.1407769404.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-11 21:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-12  3:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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