bug#41965: 26.3; weird behaviour of 'scroll-down-line'

bug#41965: 26.3; weird behaviour of 'scroll-down-line'

[cage]

Hi!

I got  a strange issue  with the command  mentioned in the  subject, not
sure it  is an actual  bug but seems at  least an inconsistency  in this
command.

to reproduce this issue

1. paste the following code in a buffer:

-----8<----8<---------8<----8<----
(let ((prefix-first " \n")
        (stopper      "\n"))
    (list 'face 'default 'display
          (concat prefix-first
                  (propertize "foo"
                              'face '(:background "red" :foreground "yellow"))
                  stopper))))

(defun scroll-note ()
  (add-text-properties 31 32 (scroll-note-property)))

(scroll-note)
-----8<----8<---------8<----8<----

2. move the cursor at the beginning of the buffer (position 1)

3. eval the buffer's content
   - a "note" 'foo' with red background should be shown on the second
   line (as a display property of the first newline character)

4. M-x scroll-up-line -> scroll up two lines (i.e. jump to line 3
   starting from 1)

5. M-x scroll-down-line -> scroll down one line (i.e. jump to line 2
   starting from 1) and get stuck there, any subsequent call to
   scroll-down-line does nothing and the line 1 is never shown
   (using that command)

for context, this is related to the package annotate.el

Thank you!
C.

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bug#41965: 26.3; weird behaviour of 'scroll-down-line'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 13:36:18 +0200
> From: cage <cage-dev@twistfold.it>
> 
> 1. paste the following code in a buffer:
> 
> -----8<----8<---------8<----8<----
> (let ((prefix-first " \n")
>         (stopper      "\n"))
>     (list 'face 'default 'display
>           (concat prefix-first
>                   (propertize "foo"
>                               'face '(:background "red" :foreground "yellow"))
>                   stopper))))
> 
> (defun scroll-note ()
>   (add-text-properties 31 32 (scroll-note-property)))
> 
> (scroll-note)
> -----8<----8<---------8<----8<----

Thanks, but I couldn't use this recipe to try to reproduce the
problem.  First there are too many closing parentheses after
"stopper".  More importantly, I cannot find the function
scroll-note-property in Emacs, and no package called annotate.el.

So it seems like some details are missing from the recipe.

bug#41965: 26.3; weird behaviour of 'scroll-down-line'

[Eli Zaretskii]

[Please use Reply All to keep the bug address on the CC line.]

> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:48:10 +0200
> From: cage <cage-dev@twistfold.it>
> 
> > Thanks, but I couldn't use this recipe to try to reproduce the
> > problem.  First there are too many closing parentheses after
> > "stopper".  More importantly, I cannot find the function
> > scroll-note-property in Emacs, and no package called annotate.el.
> >
> > So it seems like some details are missing from the recipe.
> 
> I am deeply sorry, i missed a line from the original code! :(
> 
> this is the correct one (or so I hope! ;-)):
> 
> -----8<----8<---------8<----8<----
> 
> (defun scroll-note-property ()
>   (let ((prefix-first " \n")
>         (stopper      "\n"))
>     (list 'face 'default 'display
>           (concat prefix-first
>                   (propertize "foo"
>                               'face '(:background "red" :foreground "yellow"))
>                   stopper))))
> 
> (defun scroll-note ()
>   (add-text-properties 31 32 (scroll-note-property)))
> 
> (scroll-note)
> 
> -----8<----8<---------8<----8<----

OK, now I see what you see.

However, this is the expected behavior: Emacs cannot display a window
with the window-start position inside a display property.  If you
trick Emacs into doing that, you get what you describe.

Instead of "M-x scroll-down-line RET", you need to scroll 2 lines at
that point, as in "C-u 2 M-x scroll-down-line RET".  You need to make
the window start before the display property.

This is not a bug, just a known limitation of the current display
code.

bug#41965: 26.3; weird behaviour of 'scroll-down-line'

[cage]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 09:59:47PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Hi Eli!

> [Please use Reply All to keep the bug address on the CC line.]

Sorry, again!

[...]

>
> OK, now I see what you see.
>
> However, this is the expected behavior: Emacs cannot display a window
> with the window-start position inside a display property.  If you
> trick Emacs into doing that, you get what you describe.
>
> Instead of "M-x scroll-down-line RET", you need to scroll 2 lines at
> that point, as in "C-u 2 M-x scroll-down-line RET".

Yes, that's what a clever user of annotate.el actually did! :)

> You need to make
> the window start before the display property.
>
> This is not a bug, just a known limitation of the current display
> code.

Thank you for  clarifying this, i suspected this could  not actually a
bug but  i needed  some more information  from people  with experience
with the Emacs internals to be sure what was happening.

Thank you again for your kind and quick reply and for your work! :)

Bye!
C.

bug#41965: 26.3; weird behaviour of 'scroll-down-line'

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This is not a bug, just a known limitation of the current display
> code.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.