Function: overlay-start

overlay-start is a function defined in buffer.c.

Signature

(overlay-start OVERLAY)

Documentation

Return the position at which OVERLAY starts.

Other relevant functions are documented in the overlay group.

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Shortdoc

;; overlay
(overlay-start foo)
    e.g. => 1

Aliases

viper-overlay-start (obsolete since 27.1) semantic-overlay-start (obsolete since 27.1)

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/buffer.c
{
  CHECK_OVERLAY (overlay);
  if (! OVERLAY_BUFFER (overlay))
    return Qnil;

  return make_fixnum (OVERLAY_START (overlay));
}