bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too!

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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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