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bug#19422: 25.0.50; `remove-overlays` needs one additional `point` at en
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#19422: 25.0.50; `remove-overlays` needs one additional `point` at end of narrowed region. |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:32:01 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:42:36 -0800
> From: Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>
> Cc: 19422@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> In my particular use case, I am narrowing to a region and then inserting an
> `after-string` overlay at `point-max`:
>
> (overlay-put (make-overlay (point-max) (point-max)) 'after-string "|")
>
> I have a minor mode that draws a vertical line that tracks the cursor
> position and I extend that to window-end or point-max. The end of the buffer
> has a different color and a different character overlay depending upon where
> `point` is --- a leading cushion is used if the vertical column extends
> beyond the point at the end of the line.
It looks like overlays-in treats EOB specially, and does not treat
(point-max) in the same way. This is explicitly stated in the doc
string of overlays-in.
I don't know what are the reasons for such a special treatment, and
why a narrowed region doesn't get the same treatment. I always
thought that Emacs treats both the same. Perhaps all we need is to
give both the same treatment, and that's it.
Besides that, the doc string of remove-overlays is inaccurate and
misleading; I will take care of that.