Subject: Re: bug#5988: 24.0.50; bidi-display-reordering interferes with overlays

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:15:51 +0300

> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:36:20 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 19:28, Ivan Andrus <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > emacs -Q
> >
> > Then evaluate in a scratch buffer:
> >
> > (let ((ov (make-overlay (+ 2 (point-min)) (- (point-max) 160))))
> >  (overlay-put ov 'display "just a test")
> >  ;; (delete-overlay ov)
> >  )
> >
> > (setq-default bidi-display-reordering t)
> > (setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)
> 
> Not just overlays, but display properties in general:
> 
>   emacs -Q --eval '(setq-default bidi-display-reordering t)' -f buffer-menu

Thanks for the test cases, I fixed this now.

> and I suppose the problem with references in Info nodes is also related to this.

What problems?  If revno 100005 does not fix them, please file a new
bug report with a recipe to reproduce.

Thanks.