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bug#27517: 26.0.50; 25.2.2; Cannot add "help-echo" property to buffer re
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#27517: 26.0.50; 25.2.2; Cannot add "help-echo" property to buffer regions in *lisp-mode |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 23:06:38 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-08-13 15:18:23] wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> This happens because lisp-mode.el wants itself to manage the help-echo
>> property:
>
> [...]
>
>> (font-lock-extra-managed-props help-echo)
>>
>> When a property appears in font-lock-extra-managed-props, font-lock
>> removes that property when it's about to re-fontify some region, see
>> font-lock-default-unfontify-region.
>
> This is presumably so that font-locking can add help-echo warnings like
>
> + (lisp--match-hidden-arg
> + (0 '(face font-lock-warning-face
> + help-echo "Hidden behind deeper element; move to another
> line?")))
>
> which seems useful.
>
> But it'd also be nice to allow other packages to also add help-echo on
> bits and bobs. Is there no way to achieve that?
There is sadly no easy way to do that currently.
You can do things like:
- Use an overlay instead of a text-property.
- Apply the text-property via `font-lock-add-keywords` rather than directly.
- Add support for "multiple planes" in text-properties. This means that
font-lock would use its own "plane" and your package could use another
plane, and the two would be correctly merged and font-lock wouldn't
erase your properties.
It's been on my todo list for many years. I've proposed it to as
a summer project to some of my students but so far to no avail.
Stefan