bug#23468: Feature request: highlight Edebug breakpoints

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> By cargo-culting the code from gdb-mi, I get the following way to make
>> an overlay that's not hiding anything in the buffer, but just showing a
>> fringe bitmap:
>> 
>>  (let ((fringe (make-overlay pos pos)))
>>    (overlay-put fringe 'before-string
>>                 (propertize "x" 'display `(left-fringe breakpoint 
>> ,face)))))))))
>
> Yes, that's it.

I've now added an example along these lines to the manual.

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