Re: Retrieve front-advance from make-overlay

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Is it possible to retrieve from an overlay the parameters front-advance and
> > rear-advance that was given to make-overlay?
>
> > Without that it is not possible to make a new copy of an overlay AFAICS.
>
> The source code of `copy-overlay' answers this question.

Thanks. Indeed it does ;-)  -- BTW copy-overlay is not mentioned in Info.


>         Stefan
>
>
> PS: The comment says "easily" because you can of course insert+remove a char
> to check whether the position of the overlay's boundary stays "in front"
> or not.