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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, yantar92@posteo.net
Cc: 64724@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64724: 30.0.50; Inconsistency between manual, comments in the code, and implementation of point adjustment
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 09:57:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpm4kxd5m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834jlxb8jm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:15:09 +0300")

2nd try!


        Stefan


diff --git a/doc/lispref/commands.texi b/doc/lispref/commands.texi
index 037f42124cc..ae379c664d4 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/commands.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/commands.texi
@@ -1253,12 +1253,13 @@ Adjusting Point
 @cindex @code{display} property, and point display
 @cindex @code{composition} property, and point display
 
-  Emacs cannot display the cursor when point is in the middle of a
-sequence of text that has the @code{display} or @code{composition}
-property, or is invisible.  Therefore, after a command finishes and
-returns to the command loop, if point is within such a sequence, the
-command loop normally moves point to the edge of the sequence, making this
-sequence effectively intangible.
+  When a sequence of text has the @code{display} or @code{composition}
+property, or is invisible, there can be several buffer positions that
+result in the cursor being displayed at same place on the screen.
+Therefore, after a command finishes and returns to the command loop,
+if point is in such a sequence, the command loop normally moves point
+to one of the two edges of the sequence, making this sequence
+effectively intangible.
 
   A command can inhibit this feature by setting the variable
 @code{disable-point-adjustment}:






  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-22 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19  7:02 bug#64724: 30.0.50; Inconsistency between manual, comments in the code, and implementation of point adjustment Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-19 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-19 17:31   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-20  9:57     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21  2:47       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-20  9:51   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-20 10:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21  7:50       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 10:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:14           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 12:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 12:56               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 13:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 13:18                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 14:58         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-21 15:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-22 13:57             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-07-23  6:54               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-22  6:13           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21  2:39     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-21  9:11       ` Ihor Radchenko

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