Re: [Manuel Serrano <Manuel.Serrano@sophia.inria.fr>] Re: flyspell before and after-string

Manuel> To my opinion this is cumbersome (most likely I miss Manuel> understand the correct way to use overlay...). Emacs 21's Lispref describes this property for overlays: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ＠item evaporate ＠kindex evaporate ＠r{(overlay property)} If this property is non-＠code{nil}, the overlay is deleted automatically if it ever becomes empty (i.e., if it spans no characters). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to etc/ONEWS this was introduced in 19.29, so you can probably rely on it even for very old Emacsen. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.