GNU bug report logs - #15312
Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 13:34:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 15312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete,
 hence incorrect
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:43:37 +0300

> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  15312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:50:20 +0530
> 
>     (mapc
>      (lambda (s)
>        (insert (propertize s  'mouse-face font-lock-comment-face)))
>      '("ab" "cd"))
> 
> The intention of the programmer in the above case MAY have been to treat
> "ab" and "cd" differently.  
> 
> But the way Emacs deals with them, it considers "abcd" as a single
> stretch and they are highlighted together.

That's not because of the text properties, but because mouse-highlight
implementation is explicitly coded that way.
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