From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Invisibility bug: `invisible' vs `display' Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:50 -0500 Message-ID: <87hctraqhh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87sldbtd50.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171324116 21675 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2007 23:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Brockman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 00:48:30 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 1HGkuH-0001f7-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:48:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGkuH-0004Zw-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGktE-00045G-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGktE-00044r-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGktE-0000n9-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l1CNl62L009212; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:47:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l1CNkuHf006567; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost ([18.19.7.246]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l1CNkouq017147; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HGksk-0006QY-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:46:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87sldbtd50.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Mon\, 12 Feb 2007 20\:00\:11 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 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:66319 Archived-At: Daniel Brockman writes: > The `*' and `?' characters have `invisibile' properties > with a value of `t', so I expect to see none of them. > > The `?' characters all have `display' properties with a > value of "!" (one of them has "$" instead, for clarity). > This, I believe, _should_ be irrelevant. The `display' text property overrides `invisible'. This has been true since the `display' property was introduced in Emacs 21. Whether it should do this is debatable---I can think of arguments either way---but I think we should not change this before the Emacs 22 release.