From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (pos-visible-in-window-p t nil t) returns wrong position/is suboptimally documented.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:05:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930140559.GC6672@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9mcauav.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello, Eli.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 04:52:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:22:31 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > > > However 2: I think there's a bug in the functionality, too. If there is
> > > > o - a text buffer
> > > > o - with no terminating LF on its last line, and
> > > > o - that last line is above the window's last line
> > > > then (pos-visible-in-window t nil t) returns the coordinates of the last
> > > > lines's EOL. This is the case in both a Linux virtual terminal and an X
> > > > windows session.
> > > It's not a bug. If you think it's important to mention this marginal
> > > use case, I can add that, too.
> > OK, it's deliberate. It's a touch puzzling, though. I should grep the
> > elisp sources to find out what it's for. I do think it should be
> > mentioned in the doc, even if only for preventing somebody like me
> > raising a spurious bug report in the future.
> > How about expressing the piece of documentation as:
> > "If POSITION is `t', that means to check the position the first
> > visible position of the last visible screen line with text in
> > WINDOW; but if the end of the window's buffer is on the window, this
> > position is used instead."
> I already committed a change to describe that. The doc string now
> says
> If POS is t, it specifies either the first position displayed on the
> last visible screen line in WINDOW, or the end-of-buffer position,
> whichever comes first.
> and similar text is in the ELisp manual.
> OK?
Very much OK! Thanks.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-27 10:40 (pos-visible-in-window-p t nil t) returns wrong position/is suboptimally documented Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-27 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 8:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-30 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 10:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-30 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-30 14:05 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-10-01 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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