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Re: [BUG] Empty string as display property


From: Luc Teirlinck
Subject: Re: [BUG] Empty string as display property
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:09:57 -0500 (CDT)

Lars Hansen wrote:

   An empty string as display property has the advantage over the invisible
   property that it can be made conditional.

That is not what the display property is for.  If you want to make
text invisible, use the invisibility property.  The display property
is already abused enough as is.   There are things like
buffer-invisibility-spec for conditional invisibility.

Sincerely,

Luc.





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