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From: jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp (P. E. Jareth Hein)
In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of 02 Jun 1997 13:58:02 +0200
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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp (P. E. Jareth Hein) writes:
> 
> >  A quick
> > persual through overlay.el shows me that they have 'before-string and
> > 'after-string properties, so where is the cursor drawn when at either
> > end of an overlay? 
> 
> When at the end of the overlay, the cursor is draw _after_ the
> `after-string', unfortunately.  I'll send a bug report to RMS.
> 
> At the beginning of the overlay, the cursor is draw after the
> `before-string', as one would expect.
> 
> > And while I'm at it, what are
> > 'insert-in-front-hooks and 'insert-behind-hooks?  Useful enough to try 
> > and support them?  I will also be implementing 'point-enter-hook and
> > 'point-leave-hook on extents, so is anyone clamoring for something
> > like 'modification-hooks?
> 
> I wanted to use `modification-hooks' and probably also
> `insert-in-front-hooks' and `insert-behind-hooks' yesterday for
> widget.el, but had to settle with `after-change-function' for
> portability.

Okay, I'll look into adding 'modification-hooks, as it does sound
useful although I'll probably give it a more XEmacs-ish name
(modified-function?  Does it need to be a list?), then add it to
overlay.el.  Can someone send me the doc strings for FSF-emacs overlay
properties, and related hooks?

--
Jareth

