Re: setnu.el / setnu+.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> But the fact that the display property doesn't work unless it's a text
> property of an overlay's before- or after-string is not documented.

The `display' property works in other caqses as well.  But not the way
you expect: the `display' property causes the text covered by that property
to be replaced on-screen by what the display property says.
Of course, that makes sense for some values of the `display' property but
not for others.


        Stefan