GNU bug report logs - #64988
30.0.50; move-to-column can move across lines if there is a text with display property

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Message #24 received at 64988-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 64988-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, geza.herman <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#64988: 30.0.50; move-to-column can move across lines if there
 is a text with display property
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 09:38:50 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 64988 notabug wontfix
> thanks
[...]
> So I'm sorry, but unless someone comes with an idea for how to handle
> these situations in a sensible way (and I thought long and hard about
> it, but couldn't find such ideas), this will remain a limitation of
> move-to-column, and one of the complications introduced by display
> strings with embedded newlines in general.  The affected packages will
> have to adapt to this change in some ways.  Since the original code
> also produced incorrect results, just different incorrect results, I
> don't see this as a serious problem, just as a bug that wasn't fixed,
> but changed its buggy behavior.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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