From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:22:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <002301c52e18$c9b014a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200503211349.j2LDnxX12741@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <003401c52e20$d6f79c70$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <87hdj4vppf.fsf@jurta.org> <87br9begh1.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111531391 24847 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 22:43:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 23:43:10 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDs5V-0002Yi-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:43:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsMt-0000Cw-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:00:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsGQ-0002uZ-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsGP-0002ty-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDsCj-0001XG-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDrlk-0006DU-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:22:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDrlj-0003Gv-96; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:22:35 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87br9begh1.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:29:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35002 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35002 Juri Linkov writes: > David Kastrup writes: >> Please don't. I can't see any advantage of breaking working packages >> right now for no currently apparent significant practical advantage. > > I agree that handling the `display' property in a way similar to the > `invisible' property could break existing packages. The rules for > handling invisible text are quite complex and include invisibility > specifications in `buffer-invisibility-spec'. Changing them to > support the `display' property would be too drastic change. > > With the current code one of the following methods can be used > to make isearch to skip text under the `display' property: > > 1. Set both `invisible' and `display' properties. It seems the > display engine ignores the `invisible' property when the `display' > property is present. But isearch still respects it. This is definitely the correct solution. If one really wants to have the display property itself invisible (for whatever obscure reason), then one should set the invisibility properties on the display property's string. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum