From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 8627@debbugs.gnu.org, aker@pitt.edu
Subject: bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 22:44:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835ys45ccd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ys43ysr.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Alp Aker <aker@pitt.edu>, 8627@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > This cannot possibly work, not without rewriting the Emacs display
> > engine in ways I don't intend to. Quite simply, you cannot put the
> > `cursor' property on a newline that belongs to a string, because a
> > newline, obviously, doesn't have a graphic representation (a glyph) on
> > the screen, it just causes Emacs to continue drawing on the next
> > screen line.
>
> [...]
>
> > I will eventually update the documentation with this caveat.
>
> This was ten years ago -- I didn't check whether the documentation has
> been updated, but there doesn't seem to be anything more to do here than
> that?
I promised to fix at least some of the behavior, but never did. I
will take a look soon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-04 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-06 0:01 bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings Alp Aker
2011-05-06 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-06 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-06 21:17 ` Alp Aker
2011-05-07 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 20:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 20:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-04 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-05 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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