From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 16497@debbugs.gnu.org, bzg@altern.org
Subject: bug#16497: 24.3.50; `move-to-column' ignores invisible text at the beginning of the line, which create problems when using string-rectangle
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:19:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831u02ihq8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzjmq7cc6.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 16497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:14:37 -0500
>
> > emacs -Q
> > M-: (insert "abc") RET
> > C-a
> > M-: (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) 'invisible t) RET
> > C-a
> > C-a
> > C-a
>
> > ... ! See the point moving from b to c and back again.
>
> It's probably due to the post-command processing which tries to move
> point outside of invisible regions and to pretend that invisible regions
> don't exist at all (and paying attention to stickiness so that it
> prefers text positions where `invisible' won't be inherited).
Indeed, and the direction where it moves point depends on the previous
command and/or movement direction.
It's a murky area full of semi-working heuristics.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-19 16:26 bug#16497: 24.3.50; `move-to-column' ignores invisible text at the beginning of the line, which create problems when using string-rectangle Bastien Guerry
2014-01-19 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-20 9:22 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-20 16:25 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <<83eh42iry6.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-01-20 18:10 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-19 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-20 9:11 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-20 16:50 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-20 18:22 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-20 20:55 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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