Re: two display bugs involving interactions between after-string and display properties of adjacent overlays

[Joe Wells]

Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk> writes:

> Here are two more display bugs I found while trying to improve the
> code in tex-fold.el in AUCTeX.

Here is a third such bug.

> These bugs involve interactions between after-string and display
> properties of adjacent overlays.

Ditto.

> I'm assuming this macro in my reproduction code below:
>
>   (defmacro test-in-fresh-buffer-and-window (&rest body)
>     `(progn
>        (delete-other-windows)
>        (kill-buffer (get-buffer-create "xyzzy"))
>        (let ((xyzzy-buf (get-buffer-create "xyzzy")))
>          (set-buffer xyzzy-buf)
>          (display-buffer xyzzy-buf)
>          ,@body
>          )))

Ditto.

> BUG #1:  ...

> BUG #2:  ...

BUG #3:  An overlay's after-string property is not displayed if an
immediately following overlay has the empty string as its display
property.

Reproduce with this expression:

  (test-in-fresh-buffer-and-window
   (insert "ABCD")
   (let ((o1 (make-overlay 2 3))
         (o2 (make-overlay 3 4)))
     (overlay-put o1 'after-string "1")
     (overlay-put o2 'display "")))

The above expression should display “AB1D”.
The above expression wrongly actually displays “ABD”.

> ======================================================================
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) ...

Same details as in last message.

I hope this bug report is helpful.

-- 
Joe