Re: ruler-mode is broken

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > I don't see how that will work (I never really understood how that is useful
> > at all)?
> > 
> > If the predicate is false, this simply mean that "s" is shown as-is
> > (which isn't what we want).  For example,
> 
> Yes I know.  That's why the immediately following part of my message
> suggested extending the `when' operator to be `cond' (did you stop reading?).

You're right.  A cond operator would be the most flexible.

But using a "" string as the else part doesn't work.

Try to insert and evaluate the following in an empty *scratch* buffer:

  (insert "<" (propertize "*" 'display "") ">")

Looks strange here .... then try to move around in the buffer...

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