[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: remove-overlays

[Sacha Chua]

address@hidden writes:

> I have the built-in functions overlay-put and overlay-get, but not the
> function remove-overlay.
> I tried to fix it by changing the line
>   (if (fboundp 'overlay-put)
> into
>   (if (fboundp 'remove-overlays)
> but this put trouble in my daily planning file when copying the yesterday's
> tasks into today's new planning file.

The new check is

    (if (and (fboundp 'overlay-put) (fboundp 'remove-overlays))

which is essentially the same as what you put.

What kind of trouble did you encounter? It really should fall back to
text properties now...

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