From: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:35:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86tzpp9r51.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IYOzG-0006LE-Ag@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 20 Sep 2007 12\:34\:46 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > The documentation leads me to believe that the
> > before-string and display properties of an overlay should
> > be orthogonal. However, the before-string is not
> > displayed if the display property is the empty string.
> >
> > I think the thing to do is document this.
>
> This is not clear. For example, linum.el makes empty overlays
> with before-string properties and no display property at all.
> And this works. So why shouldn't it work when there is a
> display property that is the empty string?
>
> Logically it ought to work, but do we have anyone who can debug it and
> fix it? Would you like to debug it?
I am too busy with my job to debug it.
I don't object to documenting it as a bug (hopefully to be fixed
someday). I think it is not the right choice to document it as the
correct behavior.
--
Joe
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2007-09-19 15:48 ` before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string Richard Stallman
2007-09-19 16:07 ` Joe Wells
2007-09-20 16:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-20 17:35 ` Joe Wells [this message]
2007-09-23 9:07 ` Richard Stallman
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