GNU bug report logs - #9936
kill-line problem

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Message #20 received at 9936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
To: Andrew Kurn <kurn <at> sfu.ca>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 9936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9936: kill-line problem
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:05:21 +0100

Andrew Kurn <kurn <at> sfu.ca> writes:

> On Wed  2 Nov 2011 16:11 -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> (Please keep 9936 <at> debbugs cc'd)
>> 
>> Andrew Kurn wrote (on Wed, 2 Nov 2011 at 09:50 -0700):
>> 
>> > > It sounds like the intended behaviour. With kill-whole-line non-nil,
>> > > kill-line kills up to wherever forward-visible-line ends up. Ie,
>> > > invisible newlines are ignored.
>> > 
>> > No, sorry, but there are several visible newlines in the way.  It eats
>> > them all up.
>> 
>> Can you give a recipe showing how to reproduce the problem, starting
>> from emacs -q --no-site-file?
>
>
> This seems to work:
>
> emacs -nw -q --no-site-file
>
> (setq ss (concat (make-string 10 ?X) "," ))
>
>
> (put-text-property 0 10 'invisible t ss)
>
>
> (insert ss ss ss "\n" ss ss ss "\n" ss ss ss "\n" ss ss ss "\n" )
>
>
> (setq kill-whole-line t)

I can reproduce this bug in Emacs 21, but it appears to be fixed in
Emacs 22 and later. (The problem was in forward-visible-line.)

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