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Re: Emacs Lisp manual issues regarding overlays, display properties, mar


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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