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Re: question concerning overlay before-strings and property inheritance
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: question concerning overlay before-strings and property inheritance |
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Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:31:21 +0300 |
> From: az <ujfubvur@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:34:54 +0000 (UTC)
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> (save-excursion
> (goto-char 1)
> (insert ";; String\n")
> (let ((o (make-overlay 6 7))
> (o2 (make-overlay 4 8)))
> (overlay-put o 'before-string "FOO")
> (overlay-put o2 'face 'highlight)))
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> As you can see, the before-string "FOO" doesn't inherit any
> highlighting from the second overlay. Is it possible to set up
> the overlays up so that the before-string inherits the face
> property from the second overlay?
Why should the before-string "inherit" from o2? If we were to
introduce such "inheritance", how would Emacs determine from which
overlay to "inherit"?