bug-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: overlay face property not used for after-string property


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: overlay face property not used for after-string property
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:45:08 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)

> Currently, Emacs uses the `face' property for the display property, but
> not the before-string and after-string properties.  This is a rather
> ambiguous corner case for the interaction of different overlay
> properties, and my inclination is to leave it alone.  If you wish to
> change the face of either one of these strings, you can add the `face'
> text property to the string, and this will be displayed correctly.
>
> Does anyone have any objection?  If not, I'll shortly update the elisp
> manual to clarify this issue.

No objections, but could you please look into the diverging behaviors of
Emacs 22 and 23 wrt

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg01961.html

The behavior of my Emacs 22 is wrong here - but this may have been
already fixed for Emacs 22.2 ;-)





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]