Re: 23.0.50; display property and continuation arrows

[Jan Djärv]

Stephen Berman skrev:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:46:30 +0100 Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Stephen Berman skrev:
> > > On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:59:07 +0100 Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Stephen Berman skrev:
> > > > > On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:40:43 +0100 Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > > A futher observation.  If the character in the second column is a space, the
> > > > > > bug does not appear.
> > > > > I'm not sure what you mean: do you mean the position occupied by "e" in
> > > > > the last occurrence of "testing" in my screen first shot?  If I make
> > > > > this a space, I see no different behavior.  Also, what do you mean by
> > > > > the "bug"?
> > > > The bug == the appearance of an "empty" line.  Yes, the e in your screen shot.
> > > Ok, but in this case there is no "empty" line only if you apply the
> > > display property with the cursor over the "s" following the space,
> > > i.e. the cursor is on the third column.  But that's also so if you leave
> > > the "e", so the presence of the space is irrelevant.
> > That is not what I did.  I had the cursor over the space, in the
> > second column.  Maybe word breaks and/or column width has something to
> > do with this also.
>
> Did you use the same recipe I gave in my OP, aside from the space?

Yes I did.

> With
> that and the space I still get the "empty" line, so as you say there
> must be some other difference.  When I do emacs -Q and eval
> (frame-parameters), I get this:
>
> ((parent-id . 25170646)
>  (explicit-name)
>  (display . ":0")
>  (visibility . t)
>  (icon-name)
>  (outer-window-id . "65011885")
>  (window-id . "65011940")
>  (top . 30)
>  (left . 0)
>  (buried-buffer-list)
>  (buffer-list #<buffer *scratch*> #<buffer  *Minibuf-1*> #<buffer *Help*>)
>  (unsplittable)
>  (minibuffer . #<window 4 on  *Minibuf-0*>)
>  (modeline . t)
>  (width . 80)
>  (height . 40)
>  (name . "address@hidden")
>  (environment)
>  (background-mode . light)
>  (display-type . color)
>  (horizontal-scroll-bars . t)
>  (window-system . x)
>  (scroll-bar-width . 16)
>  (cursor-type . box)
>  (auto-lower)
>  (auto-raise)
>  (icon-type . t)
>  (wait-for-wm . t)
>  (title)
>  (buffer-predicate)
>  (tool-bar-lines . 1)
>  (menu-bar-lines . 1)
>  (scroll-bar-background . "grey75")
>  (scroll-bar-foreground . "#000000")
>  (right-fringe . 8)
>  (left-fringe . 8)
>  (line-spacing)
>  (screen-gamma)
>  (border-color . "black")
>  (cursor-color . "#000000")
>  (mouse-color . "#000000")
>  (background-color . "#ffffff")
>  (foreground-color . "#000000")
>  (vertical-scroll-bars . left)
>  (internal-border-width . 0)
>  (border-width . 0)
>  (font . "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-16"))
>
> Do you have different values for relevant parameters (e.g. font)?

I have width 81, height 50 (from .Xresources) and font is 
"-*-*-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup".

I also have right-fringe 11 and left-fringe 10.

        Jan D.