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

>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel Serrano <Manuel.Serrano(a)sophia.inria.fr&gt; writes: Manuel> The strings "->" and "<-" are still on the screen. Is this Manuel> really normal? For your information, XEmacs 21.4 removes Manuel> the strings. In XEmacs the overlay API is implemented using the extent primitives, and by default new extents are "detachable": ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Detached Extents ================ A detached extent is an extent that is not attached to a buffer or string but can be re-inserted. Detached extents have a start position and end position of `nil'. Extents can be explicitly detached using `detach-extent'. An extent is also detached when all of its characters are all killed by a deletion, if its `detachable' property is set; if this property is not set, the extent becomes a zero-length extent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See also C-h f set-extent-property RET. So if you set the detachable property to nil, you should get the same behavior as in Emacs. Depending on how you manipulate those extents you may prefer to do (when (featurep 'xemacs) (set-extent-property ov 'detachable nil)) at creation rather than checking for xemacs at deletion time. This seems to expose a bug in XEmacs's overlay handling (for zero-length overlays), but it's irrelevant if you're just going to go ahead and delete it anyway. HTH