Re: setnu.el / setnu+.el

[Kevin Rodgers]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > BTW has anyone tried to re-implement setnu using the `margin'
> > > rather than after-strings?
> >
> > Is the Emacs 22 Lisp manual available from cvs.savannah.gnu.org?  I
> > can't find it...
>
> Yes, it's part of the Emacs distribution.
> BTW, the margin is an Emacs-21 feature.

OK, I've had a go at it, but it's not working:

Instead of setting the overlay's before-string property to "...", I
tried setting its display property to ((margin left-margin) "...") plus
the left-margin-width variable to the length of "...".

What that does is make every line of the buffer invisible -- including
the newline and the "..." text, so the buffer appears to be empty.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
--
Kevin