Re: rendering a string as a new line?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Oliver Scholz wrote:

> jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) writes:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003  "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > > You can put a string "\n" as a `display' property on those tags.
> > as, if I understand the documentation correctly, "\n" is not a legal
> > value for `display' property.
> [...]
>
> It is not documented (so one could indeed argue, that it is not
> legal), but it is valid.  
>
> Both valid and documented is '((margin nil) "\n").

The "Other Display Specs" node of the Emacs Lisp manual says:

| `((margin nil) STRING)'
| `STRING'
|      A display specification of this form means to display STRING
|      instead of the text that has the display specification, at the same
|      position as that text.  This is a special case of marginal display
|      (*note Display Margins::).

Note the simple STRING alternative.

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Kevin Rodgers