GNU bug report logs - #4147
23.1.50: Info-search command strange behaviour

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jamie Lokier <jamie <at> shareable.org>

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:55:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 23.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #42 received at 4147 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 4147 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4147: 23.1.50: Info-search command strange behaviour
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:56:22 +0200

>> This suggests to put navigation links and breadcrumbs in the header line
>> on two lines.  But when I tried to do this, the header line displays
>> ^J for the newline instead of displaying two lines.
>>
>> Is this a limitation of the Emacs display engine?
>
> I suppose you could cause some harm if you were able to work around that
> limitation ;-)

Just the opposite is true: this limitation causes harm to users ;-)

For example, tabbar.el that uses the header line is overwritten
by Info's header line.  But with more than one header line
they would be able to coexist peacefully.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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