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Re: Problems extracting a text property


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Problems extracting a text property
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:13:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> on a link in an info buffer the text has properies like these:

> ,----
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (libc)Special Functions)
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (libext2fs.info))
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (libidn)Invoking idn)
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (nano))
> | (font-lock-face info-xref mouse-face highlight
> |  help-echo mouse-2: go to (recode))
> `----

> Now I'd like to extract the link locations, e.g. "(libc)Special
> Functions". But how?

The code activated by mouse-2 does not use the text-properties, but the
buffer's text instead.  So take a look at the text covered by those
properties (and beware that some part of it may be invisible).


        Stefan



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