From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; display property and continuation arrows Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:11:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87ir25231o.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <87y7bsez73.fsf@escher.local.home> <87d4sifzwd.fsf@escher.local.home> <477FC0B3.3050009@swipnet.se> <477FC11B.7040405@swipnet.se> <87zlvkqgqs.fsf@escher.local.home> <47800BBB.80000@swipnet.se> <87prwfrgmq.fsf@escher.local.home> <4780B186.8090506@swipnet.se> <87sl1bjbir.fsf@escher.local.home> <4781CDF6.1080805@swipnet.se> <87r6gu110m.fsf@escher.local.home> <4782022D.9060506@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199711534 25815 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 13:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:12:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 14:12:36 2008 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 1JBrmH-0006HY-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:12:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrlu-0001yu-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:12:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrlq-0001wL-3H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:12:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrlp-0001uv-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrlp-0001uh-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBrlp-0004Nm-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrlg-0006v6-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:11:53 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387dda6.versanet.de ([83.135.221.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:11:52 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387dda6.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:11:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387dda6.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:86473 Archived-At: On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:42:53 +0100 Jan Djärv wrote: > Stephen Berman skrev: > >> >> When I start emacs -Q, then do (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec >> "-*-*-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup"), then (make-frame >> '((width . 81) (height . 50) (right-fringe . 11) (left-fringe . 10) >> (font . fontset-startup))), this results, with the text I used in my OP, >> in the "e" in the last occurrence of "testing" being in the *first* >> column of the continued line, not the second, as you reported -- it >> cannot be otherwise with that text and frame width 81 instead of 80, at >> least if the font used has a fixed width (in my case the font is >> -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1). But that >> is the precisely position in which there is no "empty" line (nor >> continuation arrows) after applying the display property, regardless of >> whether the character is a space or not. Are you sure you didn't apply >> the display property to the first column instead the second? Or are you >> using a variable width font? >> > > I'm not sure now what I did. But I didn't use your "testing" line, > your OP just said: > > "2. Type a line of text that extends beyond (window-width) with auto-fill > mode is disabled so that continuation arrows are displayed in the > fringes." > > I just typed in random characters. > > But when I try now, I can't see any difference if the second character > is a space or not. Sorry for the noise. No problem, at least we now know we observe the same behavior. Since Martin Rudalics also confirmed seeing it under w32, I wonder if RMS may have tried something different from my recipe, since he reported not getting the result without continuation arrows. Richard, if you have time could you try again and see if you really don't observe the same thing? Steve Berman