bug#58479: 29.0.50; [feature/noverlay] Displaced overlays in notmuch search buffers after refreshing

[Ihor Radchenko]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> After executing 3, if I run M-x describe-text-properties, the overlay is
>> not listed in the text properties. Running
>> M-: (overlays-in (point-min) (point-max)) does list the 0-length
>> overlay 5..5. However, running M-: (overlays-at 5) yields nil.
>>
>> I think that the above is not right.
>
> Whether this is "right" or not is a good question, but AFAIK it's the
> "expected" behavior in the sense that it's how `overlays-at` has worked
> until now.  So I think it's "right".

After reading the docstring of `overlays-at', I do agree. It indeed
explicitly says that zero-length overlays will not be listed.
I was confused because zero-length overlays were listed by
describe-text-properties before your patch above.

I think this bug report can be closed.

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