From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Fritz Stelzer <brotzeitmacher@gmail.com>, 28527@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28527: unexpected behaviour of char-after if argument is marker that don't point to the current buffer
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 04:00:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k187qfr5.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83efr1fjwg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:51:27 +0300")
tags 28527 + notabug
close 28527
thanks
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> When the argument for char-after is a marker, the function gets bytepos from the buffer the marker is pointing
>> to by calling marker_byte_position. But then pos_byte is compared to BEGV_BYTE and ZV_BYTE that use the
>> current buffer. At the end of the function, pos_byte is passed to FETCH_CHAR, which also operates on the
>> current buffer.
>
> This is according to the documentation, which explicitly says the
> position is looked up in the current buffer. So this sounds like an
> intentional and documented behavior.
With the above explanation and no other comments within 2 years, I'm
closing this as notabug.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-11 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-20 13:29 bug#28527: unexpected behaviour of char-after if argument is marker that don't point to the current buffer Fritz Stelzer
2017-09-20 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-11 3:00 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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