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23.1; hl-line-mode appears to not be compatible with line prefix text properties

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Message #8 received at 4053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf <at> ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: 4053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 23.1;
	hl-line-mode appears to not be compatible with line prefix text
	properties
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:56:28 -0500

Hi Eric,

> I use org-mode extensively.  In a recent upgrade to org-mode, text
> properties are used to display the text automatically indented.
> However, this use of line prefix text properties, in particular, seems
> to interact badly with hl-line-mode.  Specifically, the highlighting
> done by hl-line-mode starts at an indented position, not at the
> physical start of the line, and continues onto the next screen line to
> line up with the start position.
>
> A sample screenshot of this erroneous behaviour can be found (for a
> short while, at least) at
>
>       http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/tmp/indent-highlight.png

Org mode has been updated in Emacs since your bug report.  Would it be
possible for you to test if the bug still exists with the latest Emacs
bzr repository?  If that's inconvenient, could you please provide a
precise step-by-step recipe for reproducing this problem?

Thanks.

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