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changeset 66341:8ad92df59512
(Overlay Arrow): Clarify about local bindings of overlay-arrow-position.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:18:11 +0000 |
| parents | 72170abe8953 |
| children | a4fe475f3c8b |
| files | lispref/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/display.texi Sun Oct 23 18:01:25 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/display.texi Sun Oct 23 18:18:11 2005 +0000 @@ -2922,9 +2922,12 @@ usually begins with indentation, normally nothing significant is overwritten. -The overlay string is displayed only in the buffer that this marker -points into. Thus, only one buffer can have an overlay arrow at any -given time. +The overlay-arrow string is displayed in any given buffer if the value +of @code{overlay-arrow-position} in that buffer points into that +buffer. Thus, it works to can display multiple overlay arrow strings +by creating buffer-local bindings of @code{overlay-arrow-position}. +However, it is usually cleaner to use +@code{overlay-arrow-variable-list} to achieve this result. @c !!! overlay-arrow-position: but the overlay string may remain in the display @c of some other buffer until an update is required. This should be fixed @c now. Is it?