From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Sebastian Wålinder" <s.walinder@gmail.com>
Cc: 66942@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66942: move-to-column behavior when newlines have a display property
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 07:59:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83cywo4u5q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfztkvyq.fsf@nixos.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (message from Sebastian Wålinder on Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:14:05 +1100)
unarchive 64988
forcemerge 66942 64988
thanks
> From: Sebastian Wålinder <s.walinder@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:14:05 +1100
>
> There was a bug that I encountered in a downstream Emacs package relating to setting line-move-visual to nil and running line-move when the package has created overlays on newlines.
>
> The maintainer of the package has tracked down the bug to some incorrect behavior in the function move-to-column when overlays are present on newlines.
>
> Here's a link to the issue that describes the issue with move-to-column:
> https://github.com/jdtsmith/indent-bars/issues/22
>
> Thoughts?
It's the intended behavior. It is the best Emacs can do given the
limitations posed by such overlay strings, see the detailed
explanation in bug#64988.
My best recommendation is not to use overlay strings with embedded
newlines, if accurate movement by columns is important.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-05 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-04 22:14 bug#66942: move-to-column behavior when newlines have a display property Sebastian Wålinder
2023-11-05 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-11-05 17:18 ` JD Smith
2023-11-05 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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