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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Toby Cubitt <toby@dr-qubit.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	459@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#459: Zero-length overlays, overlay keymaps, and `overlays-at'
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:23:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8s2157x0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210720124457.GA10470@bb84> (Toby Cubitt's message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:34:39 +0000")

> Still seems surprising to me that overlays-at won't return all
> overlays "at" point,

FWIW, I see nothing in the code suggesting that this was a deliberate
decision.  It looks much more like an accident (which I hold to be
a misfeature).


        Stefan






  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-20 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-21 15:37 bug#459: Zero-length overlays, overlay keymaps, and `overlays-at' Toby Cubitt
2008-06-22 11:31 ` Toby Cubitt
2021-07-19 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-19 16:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-19 16:37     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-19 16:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-19 18:19       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-19 18:23         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-19 18:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-20 11:28             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-20 11:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-20 13:34 ` Toby Cubitt
2021-07-20 13:46   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-20 15:23   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2021-07-20 14:30 ` Toby Cubitt
2021-07-21 10:36   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-05 23:05 Chong Yidong

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