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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Emacs Lisp manual issues regarding overlays, display properties, margins, etc. |
Date: | Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:39 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Maybe there should be a margin property (distinct from the current > margin display spec) which specifies material to go in the margin > (like the way the overlay before-string property works). IIRC Gerd decided to use a single property `display' rather than several properties, for reasons of performance. I do not know or remember what was the particular performance issue(s), tho, Stefan
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