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bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too!
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too! |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:45:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> It's one of those days. You see those marks "+", "A+" in the Summary
> Buffer,
>
> + 1 200306 16| |台電資訊處 :RE: Fartsworth Affair
> 1 200324 39| |John (John Lewddis) :[Maniphest] [Closed] T99999:
> Can not do any thing
> A+ 1 200324 24| |cclin :Re: Ants in pants
>
> but are too lazy to look up what they mean (in (info "(gnus) Other
> Marks") etc.).
>
> No worry, C-u C-x = (what-cursor-position) will tell you:
>
> There are text properties here:
> face gnus-summary-high-unread
> gnus-number 31074
>
> Ahhh... alas it could tell you more!
I think that's pretty much impossible -- there's no infrastructure in
Emacs to have it tell you what a random character in a generated buffer
means. And adding a bunch of text properties everywhere just in case
you wonder would be impractically slow.
So I'm closing this bug report.
--
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