Re: Behavior of evaporate

[Alex Schroeder]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Also, is that really what we want?  Maybe setting the `evaporate'
> property non-nil should delete the overlay immediately if it is
> already empty.  That would be more consistent.

Assume you write code:

create overlay, set evaporate property, change begin and end of the overlay

Now change the order:

create overlay, change begin and end of the overlay, set evaporate property

I say that we want the same result in both cases.  Therefore the
current state is what we want.

Alex.
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