Re: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty string

[Joe Wells]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     >     The documentation leads me to believe that the
>     >     before-string and display properties of an overlay should
>     >     be orthogonal.  However, the before-string is not
>     >     displayed if the display property is the empty string.
>     >
>     > I think the thing to do is document this.
>
>     This is not clear.  For example, linum.el makes empty overlays
>     with before-string properties and no display property at all.
>     And this works.  So why shouldn't it work when there is a
>     display property that is the empty string?
>
> Logically it ought to work, but do we have anyone who can debug it and
> fix it?  Would you like to debug it?

I am too busy with my job to debug it.

I don't object to documenting it as a bug (hopefully to be fixed
someday).  I think it is not the right choice to document it as the
correct behavior.

-- 
Joe