Re: Overlays and point-entered

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Yes, you'd need to implement a get-overlays-at-pos.
> This is non-trivial to implement efficiently.  The XEmacs
> implementation is so (perhaps unnecessarily) complex that Richard once
> wrote:

It shouldn't be difficult to change the get_pos_property function we
already have to return the list of relevant overlays.

Our overlay code is not efficient, but it's indeed not easy to make it
significantly better.


        Stefan