From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA
Cc: 31276@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31276: 27.0.50; "Spurious" empty first line from before-string
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:07:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837eortofl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838t97tokm.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:04:09 +0300)
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 17:04:09 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 31276@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > GNU Emacs
> >
> > hello
> > NEWS ...
> >
> > i.e. I get a *really* spurious line. This one is clearly a bug.
>
> Is it? The overlay string starts with a newline, and that's what you
> see here. Buffer position 11 is the 'N' of NEWS, and you asked Emacs
> to prepend "\nhello\n" to that, which it did. The newline after
> "Emacs", which comes from the buffer text, is still visible. So why
> is this a bug?
Answering myself: there's no newline after "Emacs". So yes, this is a
spurious empty line. I will see why that happens.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-28 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-26 20:11 bug#31276: 27.0.50; "Spurious" empty first line from before-string Stefan Monnier
2018-04-28 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-28 13:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-28 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-28 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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