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bug#58122: 28.2; overlay before/after-string does not render more than o


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#58122: 28.2; overlay before/after-string does not render more than one fringe display spec
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:12:57 +0300

> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:18:57 -0700
> From: Josh <emacs@woolsweater.net>
> Cc: 58122@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > This was never supported in Emacs. The reasons are subtle and very
> > technical, and I will not go into them here.  Making this work as
> > expected might be possible, but it would require changes on a very low
> > level in the code that handles nested display properties and overlay
> > strings, which is already extremely complicated.  I find changes of
> > such nature unjustified for such a fringe (pun intended) use case.
> >
> > As an easy work-around, you can have 2 different overlay strings at
> > the same position, like this:
> 
> Got it. I think this workaround should be sufficient. Thank you for the quick 
> response!

Thanks, so I'm closing this bug report.





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