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30.0.50; Displaying image slice in the right margin

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From: Evgeny Zajcev <lg.zevlg <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 75776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75776: 30.0.50; Displaying image slice in the right margin
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:41:24 +0300

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чт, 23 янв. 2025 г. в 13:02, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> > From: Evgeny Zajcev <lg.zevlg <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:10:05 +0300
> >
> > I'm having problem displaying an image slice in the right margin.  To
> > reproduce this, download
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/images/emacs.png to your ~/Downloads
> > folder.  Activate right margin with M-x visual-fill-column RET.  And
> consider three pieces of code:
> >
> > 1. (insert
> >      (propertize "E" 'display `((slice 0 0 1.0 20) ,(create-image
> >      "~/Downloads/emacs.png" nil nil :scale 1.0))))
> >
> >    Displays image slice in the buffer as expected.
> >
> > 2. (insert
> >      (propertize "E" 'display `((margin right-margin) ,(create-image
> >      "~/Downloads/emacs.png" nil nil :scale 1.0))))
> >
> >    Displays image in the right margin as expected.
> >
> > 3. (insert
> >      (propertize "E" 'display `((margin right-margin)
> >       ((slice 0 0 1.0 20)
> >       ,(create-image "~/Downloads/emacs.png" nil nil :scale 1.0)))))
> >
> >    Displays "E"
> >
> > Documentation say that ((margin right-margin) SPEC) can be used to
> > display image in the right margin, and SPEC is totally valid in the
> > 3. because 2. works.
> >
> > Is this a bug?
>
> You need to construct the display property in a different order:
>
>   (insert
>      (propertize "E" 'display
>                      `((slice 0 0 1.0 20)
>                        ((margin left-margin)
>                         ,(create-image "~/Downloads/emacs.png"
>                           nil nil :scale 1.0)))))


This works perfectly!  Thanks for your reply and comprehensive explanation

-- 
lg

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