Re: How to use display text property with after-string?

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Oct 21 2016, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to set the "display" text property so that some text is 
> displayed
> after the buffer part I'm setting the property to.  However, I 
> can't do
> it.  Consider an Elisp buffer with these contents:
>
> --8<---------------cut 
> here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is 
> cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut 
> here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> After C-x C-e with point at the end, I see this:
>
> --8<---------------cut 
> here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a comment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is 
> cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut 
> here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> but I expected this:
>
> --8<---------------cut 
> here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; this is a commentcomment
>
> (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is 
> cool!"))
> --8<---------------cut 
> here---------------end--------------->8---

I'm getting this (Emacs 25.1.2):

,----
| ;; this is a comment
| 
| (put-text-property 14 21 'display '(after-string " which is 
 cool!"))
`----

But looknig through the Elisp manual, it seems that `after-string' 
is an overlay property, not a text property, so what you're after 
probably isn't supposed to work.



--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments