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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Nested display strings
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:17:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aafgb2c7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762q4mdjp.fsf@maru.md5i.com>

> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:19:38 -0400
> 
> I'm of the opinion that it should either display: STRING1 or
> STRING1STRING2STRING1, and which doesn't really matter.

That is, you think that doing that without setting priorities invokes
"undefined behavior".

> If I had to choose, however, I would prefer that if two overlays
> with the same priority appear over the same character, whichever
> overlay that has the earlier start should take precedence (giving us
> STRING1 in this case).

I tend to agree.

> Please note, that if myov1 had a specifically higher priority than
> myov2, I think STRING1STRING2STRING1 is a perfectly valid result.

You mean, if myov2 has higher priority, right?  Because if myov1 has
higher priority, we display just STRING1, as expected.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-24  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-23 16:44 Nested display strings Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 19:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-04-23 20:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2011-04-23 22:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-23 23:20     ` Drew Adams
2011-04-24  6:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-24  5:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-24 17:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 12:47     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 13:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-25 14:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-25 19:03           ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-25 19:41       ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-25 19:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:04           ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-26 18:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 12:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 17:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:13             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-26 18:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-26 18:35                 ` chad
2011-04-26 18:50                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-26 19:19                   ` Drew Adams
2011-04-28  0:45             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-28 16:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-28 18:42                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 20:51           ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-27  0:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-26 14:46       ` Richard Stallman
2011-04-24  5:19 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-24  6:17   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-24  6:22     ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-04-24  6:31   ` Andreas Röhler

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