Re: problem of released-button style mode-line

[Miles Bader]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> Sorry for the incorrect wording.  At the beginning of start_display,
> init_iterator is called.   And, at the beginning of
> init_iterator, we have this code:
> 
>   xassert (charpos < 0 || (charpos > 0 && charpos <= ZV));
> 
> This apparently indicates that CHARPOS should be a position
> in the current buffer, not that of WINDOW's buffer.

Hmmm... you're right, judging from the code, iterators *are* expected to
iterate over the current buffer (a bit ugly, that).

It seems like the right thing to do is temporarily set the current
buffer to W's buffer, in either Fpos_visible_in_window_p or
pos_visible_p (or both?).

Gerd?

-Miles
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