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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-u C-x = prints garbage for a text property with value '(string . ?")
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 05:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83si00pbjc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160308220857.GG6269@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:08:57 +0000)

> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:08:57 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> In master (probably in emacs-25, too), give a character a text property
> with value (string . ?").  When `describe-property-list' (descr-text.el)
> comes to print it, it decides that (string . ?") is a "widget" (whatever
> that is), and instead of printing the actual value, it ignores the cdr
> and prints the car as follows:
> 
>     string (widget)Top
> 
> It decides that 'string is a "widget" because the symbol string has a
> widget-type property.
> 
> This is crazy!  If somebody does C-u C-x = to see the value of the text
> properties, surely that is what she should see?  Not some "look how
> clever I am" DWIM attempt that only prints half of the value?
> 
> I don't see the logic in this handling, therefore don't feel qualified
> to fix this bug.  Would somebody help me out, please.

Please make a complete bug report with a recipe to reproduce it.



      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-08 22:08 C-u C-x = prints garbage for a text property with value '(string . ?") Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-09  3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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