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Re: overlay start/end marker access funs?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: overlay start/end marker access funs? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:07:56 -0500 |
> I wanted to augment `describe-text-at' to print the start/end
> insertion-types of overlays, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
> actually get that info in elisp.
>
> So, I thought it might be nice to add `overlay-start-marker'and
> `overlay-end-marker' access functions -- then one could use
> `marker-insertion-type' to do what I want.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with allowing elisp access to these markers?
> (or is there one already, and I'm missing it?)
>
> [If there is a problem, I guess something like `overlay-start-insertion-type'
> and `overlay-end-insertion-type' would be OK, then.]
The lack of this functionality is already noted in subr.el in
the definition of `copy-overlay'. So I agree it would be good to have.
Stefan