From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9642@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9642: move-overlay creates an empty overlay with the evaporate property
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:38:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E87F8D0.5090105@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hb3tce8w.fsf@gnu.org>
On 10/01/11 01:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> doing this invokes undefined behavior
No, everywhere else the overlay code consistently defines
the behavior: out-of-range values are treated as if they were
the nearest in-range values. For example,
(make-overlay 0 (1+ (point-max)))
is treated exactly as if it were
(make-overlay 1 (point-max))
This is almost always true for move-overlay, too: for example,
in a nonempty buffer:
(move-overlay foo 0 (1+ (point-max)))
is exactly equivalent to
(move-overlay foo 1 (point-max))
This behavior is a longstanding Emacs tradition, in many functions,
e.g., (goto-char 0) is exactly equivalent to (goto-char 1).
I suppose it might make sense for the overlay code to consistently treat
out-of-range values as errors, and throw exceptions instead.
But what doesn't make sense is for the overlay behavior to be inconsistent,
where all the primitives follow goto-char's lead
except that in some (but not all) cases move-overlay screws up
and silently returns a bogus zero-length evaporating overlay.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-02 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-30 22:55 bug#9642: move-overlay creates an empty overlay with the evaporate property Paul Eggert
2011-10-01 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-01 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-01 7:33 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-01 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-02 5:38 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-10-02 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 1:09 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-03 3:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 4:21 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-03 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-03 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-23 22:48 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <handler.9642.D9642.133522137028631.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2012-04-26 15:30 ` bug#9642: closed (Re: bug#9642: move-overlay creates an empty overlay with the evaporate property) Tassilo Horn
2012-04-27 16:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-27 18:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-28 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-28 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 22:20 ` Paul Eggert
2012-04-29 7:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-29 19:41 ` Paul Eggert
2012-04-30 9:40 ` Troels Nielsen
2012-05-14 5:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-27 22:09 ` Troels Nielsen
2012-05-29 16:16 ` Paul Eggert
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