GNU bug report logs - #16413
24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>, 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#16413: 24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:21:13 -0500

>>> Apart from the consideration of breaking existing elisp, do you think
>>> there's substantial disagreement on these questions?
>> Oh yes.  Look at the uses of narrowing in info-mode for an example.
> What about it? It looks like normal elisp use of narrowing to me.

To the user, the text outside of the visible area doesn't exist at all.
(line-number-at-pos (point-min)) should return 1 there, even though
there are always several/many lines of text before point-min.


        Stefan
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