AUCTeX and XEmacs

[Ralf Angeli]

* Stephen J. Turnbull (2004-09-02) writes:

>>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Angeli <dev.null at iwi.uni-sb.de> writes:
>
>     Ralf> There are cases where the content of the LaTeX macro spans
>     Ralf> several lines in the buffer.  This is handled nicely by
>     Ralf> Emacs where the display property of an overlay can hold
>     Ralf> linebreaks.  In XEmacs the end-glyph property of an extent
>     Ralf> is used with a glyph made of the contents of the LaTeX
>     Ralf> macro.  Unfortunately linebreaks will vanish if the
>     Ralf> respective string is transformed to a glyph.
>
> It's a hack but what you probably could do is use a layout glyph.  A
> layout glyph is a compound glyph like a TeX box.  It is either an hbox
> or a vbox (determined by a property in the layout's initializer).

Hm, I doubt that a box would be useful for content with a shape like

...........xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx........

where I want to collapse/expand the "x" content only and leave the
dotted stuff alone.

> Unfortunately this is not documented at all, I'm afraid.  I've got a
> bit in a workspace for 21.5, but the best place to look is in
> dialog-items.el, I think, which gives an example of a complex layout
> (a search dialog).

Does this work for you?  I have a compiled CVS XEmacs here (about two
weeks old) which I started out of its build directory (so it is not
installed properly yet).  If I click on "Edit --> Find..." nothing
happens.

I took a part of `make-search-dialog' for testing purposes, put it
into a function

(defun foo (from to)
  (let ((extent (make-extent from to))
	(glyph (make-glyph
		`[layout
		  :orientation horizontal
		  :vertically-justify top
		  :horizontally-justify center
		  :border [string :data "Search"]
		  :items ([layout
			   :orientation vertical
			   :justify top	; implies left also
			   :items ([string :data "Search for:"])])])))
    (set-extent-property extent 'end-glyph glyph)))

and this doesn't do anything either.  Did I miss something?

-- 
Ralf