From: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
To: 66942@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66942: move-to-column behavior when newlines have a display property
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 12:18:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D1BB9185-3789-4546-8248-6AAABF1D9AFF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zfztkvyq.fsf@nixos.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> ...unless someone comes with an idea for how to handle these situations in a sensible way (and I thought long and hard about it, but couldn't find such ideas), this will remain a limitation of move-to-column, and one of the complications introduced by display strings with embedded newlines in general.
Would it not make more sense to place the cursor _before_ the first character with a `\n` in its replacing-display property, if move-to-column attempts to move past it? It is true that neither that position nor a position on a subsequent line is “correct”, but the former at least preserves the expected move-to-column semantics of “stay on this line”.
The final newline is the only place to add display on blank lines, so this will be a general problem for any package attempting to do that. Here’s a simple test of this for people wanting to investigate:
(progn
(insert "\n>>>>\n" (propertize "\n" 'display "xxxxx\n") "SHOULD NOT MOVE HERE\n<<<<")
(forward-line -2) ; at beginning of xxxxx\n line
(move-to-column 10)) ; should not move past the line
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-05 17:18 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
2023-11-05 17:18 ` JD Smith [this message]
2023-11-05 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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