GNU bug report logs - #19473
posn-at-point fails in RTL paragraph

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Message #10 received at 19473-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 19473-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19473: posn-at-point fails in RTL paragraph
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:34:23 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:31:53 +0100
> 
> posn-at-point returns the wrong position in RTL paragraphs.  For
> example, when visiting TUTORIAL.he, (= (event-start (posn-at-point)
> (point))) returns nil everywhere.
> 
> That appears to be because pos-visible-in-window-p returns (0 0) for
> (point-min) even though the RTL paragraph is aligned to the right.

Thanks for the report and the analysis.  I fixed this in commit
aa472a3 on the emacs-24 branch.

For the record: this never worked correctly for RTL text.

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