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From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup)
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>,
	"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>,
	Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should invisible imply intangible?
Date: 16 Mar 2002 05:05:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u1rhnomb.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878z8tmbpk.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu> writes:
> > This was recently brought up when discussing code that adds a "¶" at
> > end of paragraphs (using a before-string property): the current code
> > always displays the cursor just after this string, which looks very odd
> > since typed text will be inserted before the string.
> 
> I agree strongly, I absolutely hate the way it currently works -- it's
> basically just _wrong_ for inserted text to appear somewhere far away
> from the cursor like that.

In this particular case the problem could be avoided by setting the
display property of the newline in question to "¶\n" instead of
setting its before-string.  But I agree that the behavior seems weird.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-16  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-23 20:19 Should invisible imply intangible? Richard Stallman
2002-02-23 21:24 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2002-02-25  0:09   ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-25  5:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-02-26 20:13   ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-01  1:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-03 14:40       ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-03 17:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-04 23:41           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:46             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05  1:40             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-07  2:30               ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:41           ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 21:58             ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 23:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 23:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-09 20:03                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-09 22:37                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-10 21:32                     ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]                       ` <200203102202.g2AM26q06798@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-03-11 19:06                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-12 17:56                           ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-13 10:58                             ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-13 11:19                               ` David Kastrup
2002-03-15  3:41                                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-15 11:47                                   ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  6:39                                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-16 11:58                                       ` David Kastrup
2002-03-18  9:06                                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 23:36                                           ` David Kastrup
2002-03-19  7:24                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-19 11:12                                               ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  0:22                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-16  0:56                                     ` Miles Bader
2002-03-16  0:59                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-16  1:25                                         ` David Kastrup
2002-03-17 10:06                                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-16  1:18                                     ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  1:28                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-16  2:16                                         ` David Kastrup
2002-03-16  3:29                                         ` Miles Bader
2002-03-16  4:05                                           ` David Kastrup [this message]
2002-03-23 23:37                                         ` David Kastrup
2002-03-13 13:06                               ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-13 14:15                                 ` David Kastrup
2002-03-13 16:53                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-14 12:42                                   ` Richard Stallman

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