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Re: Highlighted text which is not part of the buffer?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Highlighted text which is not part of the buffer? |
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Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:50:25 +0200 |
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"spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> writes:
> I created an empty overlay with before-string set and added a face
> property,
_Where_ did you add the face property? To the overlay? To the
before-string?
> but the before-string is not highlighted. (If the overlay is not
> empty, there is some real text in it then the before string is
> highlighted together with the real text.)
Probably only if the face property is inherited to the left.
> Is there an other way to show text with face properties which is not
> part of the buffer?
Put the face property on the before-string (I'd prefer using the
'display property).
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum