Re: Overlays category - could this be made buffer local?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> >      If OVERLAY does not record any value for that
> >      property, but it does have a `category' property which is a
> >      symbol, that symbol's PROP property is used.  Otherwise, the value
> >      is `nil'.
> >
> > If 'category where allowed to be a symbol then buffer local values could
> > be set.
>
> `category' is already a symbol.  I presume you're saying, "if the user
> were able to specify a custom forwarding symbol to use instead of
> `category', then ..."

Sorry, I meant "to be a variable containing a symbol". Would that be any 
problem?

> I'm not sure it's a good idea though, as in many cases overlay lookups
> are implicit, so there's no easy/clean way to specify what symbol to use
> (instead of `category').
>
> -Miles