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Re: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty st
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Joe Wells |
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Re: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:35:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > The documentation leads me to believe that the
> > before-string and display properties of an overlay should
> > be orthogonal. However, the before-string is not
> > displayed if the display property is the empty string.
> >
> > I think the thing to do is document this.
>
> This is not clear. For example, linum.el makes empty overlays
> with before-string properties and no display property at all.
> And this works. So why shouldn't it work when there is a
> display property that is the empty string?
>
> Logically it ought to work, but do we have anyone who can debug it and
> fix it? Would you like to debug it?
I am too busy with my job to debug it.
I don't object to documenting it as a bug (hopefully to be fixed
someday). I think it is not the right choice to document it as the
correct behavior.
--
Joe