From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8627@debbugs.gnu.org, Alp Aker <aker@pitt.edu>
Subject: bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ys43ysr.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8362otgrca.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 29 May 2011 23:54:45 +0300")
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?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-04 20:22 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 [this message]
2021-12-04 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-05 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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