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It's all up for grabs, compound with glue
ve written before, once you learn a little elisp, Emacs becomes this hyper malleable editor/platform. A live playground of sorts, where almost everything is up for grabs.
It empowers you to have those aha moments like "if I could just wire this awesome utility with that other one, it'd be perfect for me" and enable you to act on it. I had no idea how to go about it, but opening symbol-overlay.el(via M-x find-library symbol-overlay) and browsing through all functions (via imenu) yields the first piece I needed: symbol-overlay-get-list. There's some additional logic needed to ensure all fake cursors are placed in the same relative position within symbol (using an offset).
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