David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It would be wrong for preview-latex, probably one of the most >> important applications extensively using the display property. >> >> With all due respect, I have not been shown a reason to consider >> that package tremendously important. All user program are important >> to some extent, but I don't see why this one should be overridingly >> so. > > Oh, I was not as immodest to claim one of the most important > applications whatsoever, but only among a particular subset. It > actually happens to be rather easy to be "one of the most important > applications [among those that are] _extensively_ using the display > property", since there are not many of them. The only other one I can > think of right now would be w3, and development of that appears pretty > much stagnant.
I fully agree with David that we should not make such changes to the behaviour of the display property that would break _the_ major package actually using it for anything non-trivial. Instead we can explicitly put an inivisible property together with the display property on a priece of "hidden" text which should be ignored by searches. That need a little work to check all uses of display properties, but it doesn't break any old code relying on the current behaviour. I don't know whether it actually works to put both invisible and display on some text (with the effect of showing the image and ignoring the under-laying text). Would someone make some examples to check it? -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
