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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kjambunathan <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#15312: Info (point-entered, point-left): Doc incomplete, hence incorrect
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:27:29 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>,  15312 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:19:54 -0400
> 
> > That's not because of the text properties, but because mouse-highlight
> > implementation is explicitly coded that way.
> 
> It's done elsewhere, indeed, but to the user the end-result is the same:
> the text-properties end up describing an interval-ish thing.

Interval-ish and "intervals" are not the same.  Intervals can (and do)
overlap, and they actually represent a tree of text extents.  Text
properties cannot overlap.
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