Re: Faces don't work in overlays

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Wassong <520054004144-0001@t-online.de> writes:
>       (let ((eol-overlay (make-overlay arg (1+ arg))))
>       (overlay-put eol-overlay 'after-string "some text")
>       (overlay-put eol-overlay 'face 'font-lock-comment-face))
> I create an overlay and want to show it in a specific face.
> This does not work.

I don't know how many times, I've said it, but here it goes again:
"does not work" is not a useful description.

Anyway, using my crystal ball, I suspect that the face is correctly
applied to the text between arg and arg+1 but that you'd like it to apply
to the after-string instead.  If so, then you want to do

   (let ((ol (make-overlay arg (1+ arg)))
         (str "some text"))
     (put-text-property 0 (length str) 'face 'font-lock-comment-face str)
     (overlay-put ol 'after-string str))


-- Stefan