changeset 66341:8ad92df59512

(Overlay Arrow): Clarify about local bindings of overlay-arrow-position.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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?