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bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incor
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:50:01 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: kjambunathan@gmail.com, 15312@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:35:09 -0400
>
> >> > 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.
Then perhaps the right place for some such text is in "Property
Search", where those "intervals" are called "chunks of text that have
the same property value".
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, (continued)
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/14
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/16
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/16
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Jambunathan K, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/13
- bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect, Jambunathan K, 2013/09/14