Re: indentation via text or overlay property?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is there a way to implement indentation via a text property like left-margin
> or an overlay property like before-string?

(put-text-property start end 'display '(space :align-to N))

will make the text between `start' and `end' appear like a space
that ends at column N.
This is at least documented in the NEWS file of Emacs-21.1, and
I'd expect there to be something about it as well in the elisp manual.


        Stefan