On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 1:19 PM Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be nice for me to overlay the macro invocations with the values
> that they will evaluate to on export. I guess I would have to figure out
> when to trigger recalculation of the values (maybe not too often, say only
> when the macro is first created, when it's edited or deleted/deformed, and
> perhaps on structure editing.
>
> I do not understand emacs overlays very well so this feels a little
> daunting to me.  Does anyone out there have ideas about how to do it
> effectively?
>
>
This is what I've come up with; it feels somewhat close but not quite there
yet. I can create, remove, and the overlays, which is great.  What I miss
is the awesomeness of the way that overlays work with org links. I love how
the link target and the enclosing [[  ][  ]] are invisible until I delete
one of the "[" elements.  However, with my code, the whole macro expression
{{{macroname}}} ius invisible until I delete the whole thing, at which
point the overlay helpfully disappears.  Is htere a way to get something
like the link behaviour?


> Thanks as always!
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