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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Message #98 received at 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>,
 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16413: 24.3.50;
 Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:09:06 -0500

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> 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.

So maybe there should be a defcustom that says whether to number lines
according to the whole buffer or just the narrowed part.  These problems
seem far from insurmountable.
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