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Emacs 28: posn-at-x-y fails to take a tab line into account.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 51632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, acm <at> muc.de
Subject: bug#51632: Emacs 28: posn-at-x-y fails to take a tab line into account.
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:13:28 +0200

> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:50:23 +0100
> 
>  > (i) emacs -Q
>  > (ii) C-u C-h i <and info file> RET
>  > (iii) M-: (point) ; Note this value
>  > (iv) M-: (posn-at-x-y 0 18) ; Where 18 is the height of your default
>  >    font.  Note that the second element of the result matches that from
>  >    (iii)
>  >
>  > (v) M-x tab-bar-mode RET
>  > (vi) M-: (posn-at-x-y 0 18) ; This returns the same as (iv).
>  >
>  > Because of the tab line, (vi) should return the symbol `header-line' in
>  > its second element, not the same as (iv).  This is a bug.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand.  'tab-bar-mode' puts a tab bar on top of the
> frame.  How is this related to 'posn-at-x-y' which, by default, deals
> with the selected window?

It should be "tab-line-mode".

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