From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Bach <sjbach@sjbach.com>
Cc: 41513@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41513: `compute-motion' can miscount buffer positions in the presence of 'before-string/'after-string overlays
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 22:09:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8qatsws.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB5Eu-PtpHKnfWmX0r0zRPdmE8n48GXuVFVRDi5fkTsHZ67kAw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stephen Bach on Tue, 26 May 2020 14:12:10 -0400)
> From: Stephen Bach <sjbach@sjbach.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 14:12:10 -0400
> Cc: 41513@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Do you have any points of advice for avoiding side-effects when moving
> the cursor around the buffer programmatically?
>
> What I have so far:
> - Wrap in save-excursion
> - Bind to t:
> - inhibit-point-motion-hooks
> - cursor-sensor-inhibit
> - inhibit-field-text-motion (for precision, might be superfluous)
> - Bind to nil:
> - goal-column (probably superfluous)
save-excursion should do, usually.
> Thanks Eli, I appreciate the help and also the work you do for Emacs.
You are welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-26 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-24 18:30 bug#41513: `compute-motion' can miscount buffer positions in the presence of 'before-string/'after-string overlays Stephen Bach
2020-05-24 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-24 19:55 ` Stephen Bach
2020-05-25 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-25 20:16 ` Stephen Bach
2020-05-26 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-26 18:12 ` Stephen Bach
2020-05-26 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-24 0:26 ` Stefan Kangas
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