From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [BUG] Empty string as display property Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:22:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4284E25F.5030505@math.ku.dk> References: <4284C993.1060004@math.ku.dk> <200505131609.j4DG9v202409@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116004770 4211 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2005 17:19:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 17:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 13 19:19:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWdoR-0007QG-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 19:19:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWdxd-0007xL-0g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 13:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWdvK-0006Uo-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 13:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DWdvF-0006Qp-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 13:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWdvE-0006P3-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 13:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.99.225.245] (helo=odin.broadcom.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DWdyv-00069i-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 May 2005 13:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from pppoe3-ves.broadcom.dk ([212.99.255.42] helo=[10.17.1.154]) by odin.broadcom.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1DWdqv-0000Xw-30; Fri, 13 May 2005 19:21:33 +0200 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200505131609.j4DG9v202409@raven.dms.auburn.edu> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37091 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37091 >That is not what the display property is for. > You may argue so, but it is a bug anyway. If empty strings are not allowed, it should be stated in the manual and an error should be signaled. Now emacs just silently malfunctions.