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

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:36:20 +0200

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

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

    Juanma