Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: It says how the content is to be displayed, like a face property would do. In contrast to the face property, the original content completely gets _replaced_ by what the display property specifies, at least for most types of display property (there are several different ones). XEmacs has no equivalent. Whatever substitute you could come up with under XEmacs has the fundamental difference that you can't place point or the cursor onto it. An approximation for the most common 'display property usage (there are a number of different possibilities, read up in the Elisp manual) would be to place an extent, mark it as invisible and place the replacement glyph (which has quite more possibilities in Emacs) as an _end-glyph_ on the extent (placing it as a begin-glyph is no option since begin-glyphs happen to turn invisible along with the extent. It is shere luck that the end-glyphs don't do the same). That's in case the display property is something displayable on its own. There are a number of other functions it can be used for, however. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum