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bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:41:42 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:30:52 +0600
> From: Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> The 'Display Margins' node of Emacs Lisp manual says to put
> 'before-string' on text to use the marginal area (is this the correct
> term?) while not altering buffer text. But 'before-string' text
> property doesn't work.
>
> Steps: 1. Open a clean fundamental mode buffer.
> 2. (insert (propertize "foo" 'before-string "bar"))
> 3. The buffer shows only "foo", but not "bar" before it.
The code is incorrect: 'before-string' is an overlay property, not a text
property. So you need to define an overlay with a 'before-string' property
whose value is a string, and put a 'display' property on that string.
And if you want the 'display' property to show text in the margin, you need
also to use set-window-margins to setup the margin.
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/12/05
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/12/05
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/06
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/12/07
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/07
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/12/08
- bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work, Stefan Kangas, 2022/12/12