From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Property for treating a string as a single character when deleting Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:16:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407809997 31638 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2014 02:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:19:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 04:19:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XH1gj-00057G-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:19:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH1gj-0005Z5-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH1eT-00026J-7G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH1eL-00040M-Ko for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XH1eL-0003za-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XH1eG-00042O-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca ([192.171.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:17:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lGyN7bFZD62FDcMXyh00fFxB4Dg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99167 Archived-At: > 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