From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 10:53:30 -0300 Message-ID: References: <831v0cm6pl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304690057 27613 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2011 13:54:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8627@debbugs.gnu.org, Alp Aker To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 06 15:54:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTq-0003iM-Ti for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 15:54:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTq-00041O-GZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42269) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTn-00040q-LO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTm-0004t0-Tc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35501) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTm-0004su-SA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTm-00049f-97; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:54:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 13:54:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8627 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8627-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8627.130469002315949 (code B ref 8627); Fri, 06 May 2011 13:54:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8627) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 May 2011 13:53:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTR-00049A-Al for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTQ-00048y-1A for 8627@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:53:40 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:41001 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QILTJ-0006ty-7y; Fri, 06 May 2011 09:53:33 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9A66F66168; Fri, 6 May 2011 10:53:30 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <831v0cm6pl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 06 May 2011 14:03:34 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:54:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46270 Archived-At: > Note that, crucially, the before-string and after-string properties > are not described in this section. They are described elsewhere, > where the `cursor' property is not mentioned. So I wonder if the > `cursor' property was really supposed to work with before-strings and > after-strings... The only use of `cursor' of which I remember is in minibuffer-message, on an after-string. It's used when we display " [Sole completion]" and such messages. So, yes, it's supposed to work on before/after-strings ;-) Stefan