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after-string not displayed when overlay has a before-string and image display property

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Tim Toolan" <toolan <at> ele.uri.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: after-string not displayed when overlay has a before-string and image display property
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:08:53 -0500

When an overlay has both a before-string and an after-string, and it
has a display property which is an image, the after-string will not be
displayed.

I'm assuming this macro of Joe Wells' in my reproduction code below:

  (defmacro test-in-fresh-buffer-and-window (&rest body)
    `(progn
       (delete-other-windows)
       (kill-buffer (get-buffer-create "xyzzy"))
       (let ((xyzzy-buf (get-buffer-create "xyzzy")))
         (set-buffer xyzzy-buf)
         (display-buffer xyzzy-buf)
         ,@body
         )))

Reproduce this problem with:

  (test-in-fresh-buffer-and-window
   (insert "ABCD \n")
   (let ((o1 (make-overlay 2 3)))
     (overlay-put o1 'before-string "B1")
     (overlay-put o1 'after-string "A1")
     (overlay-put o1 'display '(image :data "#define x_width 8\n#define x_height 8\nstatic unsigned char x_bits[] = {0xff, 0x81, 0xbd, 0xa5, 0xa5, 0xbd, 0x81, 0xff };" :type xbm))))

The above expression should display "ABB1(image)A1CD".
The above expression wrongly displays "ABB1(image)CD".

Note that the problem goes away when any of the following conditions 
are met:
 1) The display property is something other than an image (like a string).
 2) There is no before-string, only an after-string.
 3) There is another overlay that covers the same region and has a
    before-string (if it only has an after-string that will not be
    displayed either).
 4) If there is a higher priority overlay that covers the same region,
    and has a display property set which is not an image.

Note that this problem also exists in the current CVS version of emacs.

Regards,

Tim


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Message #10 received at 1336 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Tim Toolan" <toolan <at> ele.uri.edu>
To: 1336 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: clarification of what conditions produce bug 1336
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:08:52 -0500

Hi,

After looking into this bug further, I can clarify exactly what is happening.

When an overlay has a display property which is an image which is  
displayed, and exactly one overlay (it does not have to be the one  
which contains the image) has a before-string property that occurs at  
the start of the overlay with the image, then all after-strings in all  
overlays that end at the end of the image will not appear.

If there are any other number of overlays (including zero) with  
before-string properties that occur at the beginning of the image, the  
bug does not occur.

Hope this new information helps find the problem.

Regards,

Tim

Message #15 received at 1336-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Tim Toolan" <toolan <at> ele.uri.edu>
Cc: 1336-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: after-string not displayed when overlay has a before-string and
	image display property
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:31:48 -0400

> When an overlay has both a before-string and an after-string, and it
> has a display property which is an image, the after-string will not be
> displayed.

Thanks for the bug report.  I finally tracked the problem down, and have
committed a fix.

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