Re: Display problems with 'before-string in overlay

[Kim F. Storm]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:48:34 +0200
>>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
>>> CC: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>,
>>> address@hidden,  address@hidden
>>>
>>>> FWIW, I wouldn't touch this so close to the release: if no one noticed
>>>> this since July 2005, it's hardly a grave bug.
>>> How do you know? This just looks so strange so it could well be a grave bug.
>>
>> How do I know what? that it's not grave?  But I just explained that!
>
> To me it looks more like using a 'before-string of the kind I am using
> is uncommon. But maybe that is what you mean, that is not grave
> because it is uncommon.

At this stage of the release cycle, a grave bug is one that makes Emacs
crash, or causes really bad redisplay behaviour.

As you said yourself, this is a corner case, so it is not a grave error.

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