The section 'Displaying in the Margins ' of the elisp manual mentions that 'To display something in the margin in association with certain buffer text ... put a before-string property on the text and put the margin display specification on the contents of the before-string'. So this is what I am trying to achieve using the following code ``` (defun baleen-render (data) (pop-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "*baleen*")) (set-window-margins nil 5) (dolist (page data) (dolist (match (cdr page)) (let ((o (make-overlay (point) (progn (insert match) (point))))) (let ((s " ")) (put-text-property 0 1 'display `((margin left-margin) ,(format " %d" (car page))) s) (overlay-put o 'before-string s))) (insert "\n")))) (baleen-render '((1 "test1" "test2") (2 "test3"))) ``` Here, for every 'match' in a 'page' I am creating a new string 's' to which I add the margin display property to 'associate' it with some buffer text by using it as the value for its before-string property. However, although each 's' should get a different display property value via (format " %d" (car page)), all margin entries end up showing the same value of 2 (while the first two lines should show page number 1). To reproduce the error, simply evaluate the code above. Using edebug on 'baleen-render' it can be seen that the code seems correct, i.e. (car page) correctly returns the correct page number. It seems that although I am creating a different string object on each iteration, somehow the object put in the marging seems to be always the same. To me, this looks like a bug. And otherwise, if I am doing something wrong, then of course this report can be seen as a 'help/support request'. Thanks! In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-09-10 built on fedora Repository revision: 4cf9c92e27d20da9453f9abe89d84bee5d776329 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12014000 System Description: Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition) Configured using: 'configure --with-modules --with-cairo --with-native-compilation --with-json' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader cl-loaddefs comp comp-cstr warnings icons subr-x rx cl-seq cl-macs gv cl-extra help-mode bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-lib sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils rmc iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 77301 10328) (symbols 48 7112 0) (strings 32 19407 1642) (string-bytes 1 593504) (vectors 16 15411) (vector-slots 8 317149 17892) (floats 8 28 58) (intervals 56 372 3) (buffers 1000 13))