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Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Displaying the cursor inside an overlay?
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:09:49 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:51:54 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Use the 'cursor' property on the string.  (This doesn't depend on the
> > cursor's shape, so it should work with a bar cursor as it does with a
> > block cursor.)
> 
> Thanks, I must've missed that.  I see it in the index of the Lisp
> reference manual now.

Yes, but judging by the code you installed, I'm not sure you used the
property correctly.  It's supposed to be on a single character, and
AFAIU your use case its value should be t, not a number.

(This discussion should probably move to emacs-devel.)



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