Re: address@hidden: Partial highlighting of wrapped overlay]

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> This bug has not been fixed.  Could someone please look at it,
> and ack to me?

I have installed a fix.

>
> From: Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>
> Subject: Partial highlighting of wrapped overlay
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:09:19 +0200
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>
> If you put
>
> (let* ((length (+ (- (window-width) (current-column)) 40))
>        (start (point))
>        (end (+ (point) length))
>        (string (make-string length ?x))
>        ov)
>   (insert string)
>   (setq ov (make-overlay start end))
>   (overlay-put ov 'mouse-face 'highlight)
>   (overlay-put ov 'display string))
>
> into the *scratch* buffer and type `C-x C-e' with point at the last
> parenthesis, you will get a string which does not fit into the line
> and has to be wrapped.  If you move over it with your mouse, you
> should see that only the part on the second line is being highlighted.
> The full string is highlighted only if the 'display property is not
> set.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk