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bug#27517: 26.0.50; 25.2.2; Cannot add "help-echo" property to buffer re
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#27517: 26.0.50; 25.2.2; Cannot add "help-echo" property to buffer regions in *lisp-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:03:24 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 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.
Hm, yes...
> - 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.
Oh, yeah! I'd totally forgotten -- that would indeed be the long term
fix for these issues. I think there's an issue for that somewhere in
here...
In any case, I'm closing this report, because it's basically "working as
designed" (until we get a new design).
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