From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:35:22 +0100 Message-ID: <86tzpp9r51.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> References: <86k5qnfxgn.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> <867immbpvd.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190309741 28011 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2007 17:35:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:35:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 20 19:35:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYPw9-0005bi-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYPw6-0004gD-QO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYPw2-0004d4-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYPw1-0004an-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYPw1-0004aZ-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.13.6]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYPvv-0001Lv-Sf; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from selene.macs.hw.ac.uk ([137.195.27.40]:47500 helo=127.0.0.1) by izanami.macs.hw.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1IYPvu-0007CX-Nc; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 3587 invoked by uid 1001); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:35:22 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 20 Sep 2007 12\:34\:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:79386 Archived-At: Richard Stallman 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