Kai> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Pavel Janík wrote:
>> I do not think it is easy to port picons to GNU Emacs 21, because it
>> does/will not support annotations

Kai> What do annotations do in XEmacs?

     An "annotation" is a pixmap or string that is not part of a buffer's
  text but is displayed next to a particular location in a buffer.
  Annotations can be displayed intermixed with text, in any whitespace at
  the beginning or end of a line, or in a special area at the left or
  right side of the frame called a "margin", whose size is controllable.
  Annotations are implemented using extents (*note Extents::); but you
  can work with annotations without knowing how extents work.

(my original reason for using them was that they were simply easier to
use)

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