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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Josh <emacs@woolsweater.net>
Cc: 58122-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58122: 28.2; overlay before/after-string does not render more than one fringe display spec
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:12:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtaihfo6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302d235-9614-47d9-bc39-989d8ecba8a8@app.fastmail.com> (message from Josh on Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:18:57 -0700)

> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:18:57 -0700
> From: Josh <emacs@woolsweater.net>
> Cc: 58122@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > This was never supported in Emacs. The reasons are subtle and very
> > technical, and I will not go into them here.  Making this work as
> > expected might be possible, but it would require changes on a very low
> > level in the code that handles nested display properties and overlay
> > strings, which is already extremely complicated.  I find changes of
> > such nature unjustified for such a fringe (pun intended) use case.
> >
> > As an easy work-around, you can have 2 different overlay strings at
> > the same position, like this:
> 
> Got it. I think this workaround should be sufficient. Thank you for the quick response!

Thanks, so I'm closing this bug report.





      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-29  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-27 18:05 bug#58122: 28.2; overlay before/after-string does not render more than one fringe display spec Josh Caswell
2022-09-28 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29  1:18   ` Josh
2022-09-29  6:12     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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