text.texi - Node: Text Properties

[Andreas Roehler]

,----
| File: text, Node: Text Properties
|
| Text Properties
| ===============
|
|   Each character position in a buffer or a string can have a "text
| property list", much like the property list of a symbol (*Note Property
| Lists::).  The properties belong to a particular character at a
| particular place, such as, the letter `T' at the beginning of this
| sentence or the first `o' in `foo'
`----

That's understood. The following remark might be
misleading, as in `fundamental-mode' all chars join the
property `nil' AFAIS.

So I propose to cancel this:

,----
| ---if the same character occurs in two
| different places, the two occurrences generally have different
| properties.
`----


BTW examining this question once, I wrote two little
functions which turned out to be helpful at several
occasions (to get the name of faces at point etc.):



(defun g-t-p ()
 "get-text-property"
 (interactive)
 (message " %s" (get-text-property (point) 'face)))

(defun t-p-a ()
 "text-properties-at "
 (interactive)
 (message " %s" (text-properties-at (point))))


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Andreas Roehler