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window-text-pixel-width includes width of following propertized space

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
Cc: 30746 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30746: window-text-pixel-width includes width of following propertized space
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:33:55 +0200

> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 17:13:32 -0500
> 
> (progn
>   (save-excursion
>     (insert #("s " 1 2 (display (space :width (50))))))
>   (window-text-pixel-size nil (point) (1+ (point))))
> 
> On my machine a single 's' is 8 pixels wide, but this snippet returns 58.  
> 
> The following snippet, however, returns 8 as expected:
> 
> (progn
>   (save-excursion
>     (insert "s "))
>   (window-text-pixel-size nil (point) (1+ (point))))
> 
> It seems that adding a display property on the space changes the return value of window-text-pixel-size; is that expected?

It's expected given the relatively naïve implementation, which didn't
expect such calamities.  Hopefully now fixed on the master branch.

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