GNU bug report logs - #20592
the `display' property messes the `face' properties after `concat'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 23:59:02 UTC

Severity: minor

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

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20592 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alexander Shukaev <haroogan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#20592: the `display' property messes the `face' properties after	`concat'
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 21:20:05 -0400

> The behavior you observe is because the ':eval' construct expects to
> produce a single string with either the same common face spec on all
> of its characters, or no faces at all.  You cannot use ':eval' to
> produce a string that has more than one face spec on its different
> characters; if you do, only the face spec of the first character of
> the string will be honored.

IIUC, this is the bug that needs to be fixed.
Or is there a reason to consider this as a feature?


        Stefan
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