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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: Overlays category - could this be made buffer local? |
Date: | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:12:43 +0100 |
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Miles Bader wrote:
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:If OVERLAY does not record any value for that property, but it does have a `category' property which is a symbol, that symbol's PROP property is used. Otherwise, the value is `nil'. If 'category where allowed to be a symbol then buffer local values could be set.`category' is already a symbol. I presume you're saying, "if the user were able to specify a custom forwarding symbol to use instead of `category', then ..."
Sorry, I meant "to be a variable containing a symbol". Would that be any problem?
I'm not sure it's a good idea though, as in many cases overlay lookups are implicit, so there's no easy/clean way to specify what symbol to use (instead of `category'). -Miles
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