Re: Hiding text

[thorne <thorne@timbral.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> My crystal ball tells me you did the "invisible" improperly (e.g. by setting
> their foreground color to the background color or some other hack).
> If you place an "invisible" property on those chars, they really will not
> appear at all, not even as spaces.

Your crystal ball is wise...

> Try font-lock rules like
>
>      (defvar foo-mode-font-lock-keywords
>        '(("\\(_\\)\\([^_ \t\n][^_\n]*\\)\\(_\\)"
>           (1 '(face nil invisible t))
>           (2 'italics)
>           (3 '(face nil invisible t)))))

Ahh, so i had been on the right track.  I had actualy been trying
this, but was not able to get it working because i couldn't follow the

,----
| FACENAME is an expression whose value is the face name to use.
| Instead of a face, FACENAME can evaluate to a property list
| of the form (face FACE PROP1 VAL1 PROP2 VAL2 ...)  
`----

Now i'm starting to get it.  Thank you.

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