GNU bug report logs - #459
Zero-length overlays, overlay keymaps, and `overlays-at'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Toby Cubitt <t.s.cubitt.98 <at> cantab.net>

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:45:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #60 received at 459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Toby Cubitt <toby <at> dr-qubit.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: Re: bug#459: Zero-length overlays, overlay keymaps, and `overlays-at'
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:23:40 -0400

> Still seems surprising to me that overlays-at won't return all
> overlays "at" point,

FWIW, I see nothing in the code suggesting that this was a deliberate
decision.  It looks much more like an accident (which I hold to be
a misfeature).


        Stefan
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