This manual describes the Emacs Auto-Overlays package, version 0.10
Copyright © 2007, 2008 Toby Cubitt
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An Emacs overlay demarcates a region of text in a buffer, often giving it a different face or changing other properties for that region. There are many circumstance in which it might be useful to create, update, and delete overlays automatically when text matches some criterion, specified for example by regular expressions. This is what the auto-overlays package addresses. It is intended as an Elisp library, providing functions to be used by other Elisp packages, so does not itself define any new interactive commands or minor modes.
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Emacs Auto-Overlays Manual
Auto-Overlay Functions
Extending the Auto-Overlays Package
Functions for Writing New Overlay Classes
Copying this Manual