From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 22:44:50 +0200 Message-ID: <835ys45ccd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8362otgrca.fsf@gnu.org> <875ys43ysr.fsf_-_@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12538"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 8627@debbugs.gnu.org, aker@pitt.edu To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 04 21:46:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbv8-00031w-8C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:46:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35834 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbv7-0004nx-5i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbv0-0004np-6x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbuz-000127-Vk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:46:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbuz-000286-Ts for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:46:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 20:46:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8627 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 8627-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8627.16386507075044 (code B ref 8627); Sat, 04 Dec 2021 20:46:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8627) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Dec 2021 20:45:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55178 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbu7-0001Iq-1H for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32888) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbu5-0001Cb-5p for 8627@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45166 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbtw-0000sV-Dd; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:44:56 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=RJB6c1pfy43zZwoXGtwd9R9NXgwy7Y4rs+gImMjFnNg=; b=hfVarOPahiL4 g58eEPz5TQSOsx+s/beptZnOABVDfiNC1DvesxtSxGFEH4NRZDeBrUbGzhX2afxXH6n8aMEBV9u3x xphU4jDhtYshWi+cxgMIeeje9KxN6O+gDXKLoNZCmSahMq8lyy59N/orhMFRQLGcjLdBlE9qxU46Z G4rye2erz1enDvOpHECN3FDw5EkYw7GuaPKA4XRjbMrsnnzP+pr+nKx00Y0sE1rKtOxDqA0g4EU5S SVcTqZeti4hV+5KhJzLoUlBTK7J/Ur1SHRnH73VZL7osiIyhcJWQH/yAIpKzFn+xHWhKLWiXQX+M9 sRxaqJBTqhkuJml2p1To6Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4025 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mtbtw-0004c1-6u; Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:44:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <875ys43ysr.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:221506 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Alp Aker , 8627@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.