From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:35:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ppsiw22k.fsf@gmail.com> <83sixej6iz.fsf@gnu.org> <878uz573kr.fsf@gmail.com> <83fvtck8mv.fsf@gnu.org> <87hadrel77.fsf@gmail.com> <83zjrjiifl.fsf@gnu.org> <877gel1ejy.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc25z1pe.fsf@gmail.com> <83vc24hmtr.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3ikn16j.fsf@gmail.com> <83r4cshdty.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwngh68u.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379104584 17128 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2013 20:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15312@debbugs.gnu.org, kjambunathan@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 13 22:36:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa6G-0001PV-SH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:36:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa6G-0007M7-HH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa66-0007Jw-1H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa5y-0001Eq-Lb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa5y-0001Em-IF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa5y-0002s0-6w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15312 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15312-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15312.137910451710970 (code B ref 15312); Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15312) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Sep 2013 20:35:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34672 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa5E-0002qs-Te for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:12666) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VKa5D-0002qX-HN for 15312@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:35:15 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rxBo/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rxBo/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgbBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="27681426" Original-Received: from 184-175-16-104.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.16.104]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 13 Sep 2013 16:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 95FA762CB9; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:35:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mwngh68u.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:27:29 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78369 Archived-At: >> > That's not because of the text properties, but because mouse-highlight >> > implementation is explicitly coded that way. >> It's done elsewhere, indeed, but to the user the end-result is the same: >> the text-properties end up describing an interval-ish thing. > Interval-ish and "intervals" are not the same. Intervals can (and do) > overlap, and they actually represent a tree of text extents. Text > properties cannot overlap. I the manual, we do not formally define "interval", so I think that something that describes a contiguous sequence of characters *is* an interval in that context, even if it's not necessarily an interval-in-the-particular-sense-discussed-nearby. Stefan