bug#6697: 24.0.50; Emacs doesn't show fringe marker at overlay-arrow-position

[Tassilo Horn]

Start emacs 24 with emacs -Q, goto *scratch* and evaluate:

  (progn (setq overlay-arrow-position (make-marker))
         (set-marker overlay-arrow-position
                     (line-beginning-position)))

The expected result is the display of an arrow fringe marker at point's
line, or the display of an "=>" text marker (overlay-arrow-string) in
non-graphical frames.  But the current bzr trunk shows none of them.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-07-21 on thinkpad
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10802000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 
'--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--program-suffix=-emacs-24' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-24' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib64' 
'--without-compress-info' '--with-sound' '--with-x' '--without-gconf' 
'--without-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' 
'--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xpm' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf' 
'--with-m17n-flt' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-hesiod' 
'--without-kerberos' '--without-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus' 
'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 
'CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,lazy''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: rcirc

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  window-number-meta-mode: t
  window-number-mode: t
  global-subword-mode: t
  subword-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  use-hard-newlines: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <return> <return> <up> <up> <left> C-x C-e 
<up> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <return> <tab> <up> 
<left> <left> <left> M-SPC <backspace> <backspace> 
SPC <down> <down> <down> <left> C-x C-e M-x g o t o 
<tab> c <tab> <return> 2 8 5 <return> C-c C-SPC C-c 
C-SPC C-c C-SPC C-c C-SPC C-c C-SPC C-x b # r c <tab> 
<return> S o m e <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
a m e SPC r e s u l t . SPC SPC N <backspace> <backspace> 
N o SPC f r i n k e <backspace> <backspace> c e <backspace> 
<backspace> g e SPC m a r k e r . <return> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> r c <tab> D o e s n ' t SPC m a t t e r . 
SPC SPC I SPC j u s t SPC t e s t e d SPC w i t h SPC 
e m a c s SPC - Q , SPC a n d SPC e v e n SPC t h e 
r e SPC I SPC g e t SPC n o SPC f r i n g e SPC m a 
r k e r s . <return> S o SPC i t SPC s e e m s SPC 
t o SPC b e SPC a SPC b u g SPC <backspace> . SPC <backspace> 
<backspace> , SPC r i g h t ? <return> C-h v o v e 
r <tab> l <tab> a <tab> p <tab> <return> M-2 <tab> 
<tab> <return> <tab> <tab> <return> M-1 M-x r e b <tab> 
<tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> p a 
<tab> <backspace> o <tab> r <tab> b <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
byte-code: End of buffer [10 times]
Mark set
#<marker at 282 in *scratch*> [2 times]
#<marker at 285 in *scratch*>
Making completion list... [2 times]
mouse-2, RET: find variable's definition
mouse-2, RET: describe this variable
mouse-2, RET: find variable's definition
mouse-2, RET: describe this variable
Making completion list...

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