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24.3; mapping newline in buffer-display-table confuses posn-at-point

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From: Jonas Hörsch <coroa <at> online.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; mapping newline in buffer-display-table confuses posn-at-point
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 16:44:17 +0200

this bug ultimately leads to hard to understand column jumping in
buffers where whitespace.el is active (and whitespace-style includes
newline-mark). 

a small show case is provided by the following three expressions. the
first two set it up. the third is to demonstrate the bug. tested in
emacs 24.3.1 started with emacs -Q.


(setq buffer-display-table (make-display-table))
(aset buffer-display-table ?\n [?$ ?\n])
(car (posn-x-y (posn-at-point)))


;; C-x C-e with point on the empty line right above this comment will
;; return the column 8 instead of the expected column 0. this leads to
;; seemingly erratic behaviour in some use-cases:
;; entering C-a (beginning-of-line) followed by C-n (next-line) will
;; leave point in column 1 instead of column 0


for any questions or comments feel free to ask away,

jonas


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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
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#^[nil nil display-table nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil ...]
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Message #10 received at 14476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jonas Hörsch <coroa <at> online.de>
Cc: 14476-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14476: 24.3;
	mapping newline in buffer-display-table confuses posn-at-point
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 19:56:41 +0300

> From: Jonas Hörsch <coroa <at> online.de>
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 16:44:17 +0200
> 
> this bug ultimately leads to hard to understand column jumping in
> buffers where whitespace.el is active (and whitespace-style includes
> newline-mark). 
> 
> a small show case is provided by the following three expressions. the
> first two set it up. the third is to demonstrate the bug. tested in
> emacs 24.3.1 started with emacs -Q.
> 
> 
> (setq buffer-display-table (make-display-table))
> (aset buffer-display-table ?\n [?$ ?\n])
> (car (posn-x-y (posn-at-point)))
> 
> 
> ;; C-x C-e with point on the empty line right above this comment will
> ;; return the column 8 instead of the expected column 0. this leads to
> ;; seemingly erratic behaviour in some use-cases:
> ;; entering C-a (beginning-of-line) followed by C-n (next-line) will
> ;; leave point in column 1 instead of column 0

Fixed in revision 112745 on the trunk.

Thanks.

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