GNU bug report logs - #40857
Invisibility specs do not apply to specified spaces

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Message #25 received at 40857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>,
 40857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40857: Invisibility specs do not apply to specified spaces
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:01:29 +0000

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 3:22 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> I don't think this is a bug.  A "replacing" display property in effect
> forces the display engine to ignore the entire chunk of text "covered"
> by that display property,

That's only true for text properties: a display property on an empty
overlay is ignored. So it would be consistent with that to ignore
display text properties on invisible strings.

The right fix, I think, is to apply the patch in bug#40845, possibly
extending it to pass in an "invisible" flag to the Lisp code that
calculates the actual display spec to be used.

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