Here it is: (defun 14170-mini () (interactive) (remove-overlays) (let* ((win-end-initial (window-end nil t)) (test-ov (make-overlay (point) (+ (point) 1000)))) (overlay-put test-ov 'display "...") (cl-assert (not (= win-end-initial (window-end nil t)))) )) Will fail most of the time. Evgeni On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:37:55 +0100 > > From: E Sabof > > Cc: 14170@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > The reason I've noticed/reported this bug was because I was working on a > > mode with a similar implementation to linum's, and got the same behavior. > > This is not a linum bug. > > Can you show a simple test case to reproduce this bug without using > linum (or any other mode that is too large)? > > A simple reproduction recipe is 50% of a solution. > > Thanks. >