Re: overlay window property not respected

[Kim F. Storm]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

> The Emacs Lisp manual specifies the window property of an overlay as:
>
> `window'
>       If the `window' property is non-`nil', then the overlay applies
>       only on that window.
>
> Executing
>
> (defun foobar ()
>    (interactive)
>    (insert "foo")
>    (let ((overlay (make-overlay (- (point) 3) (point))))
>      (overlay-put overlay 'window (selected-window))
>      (overlay-put overlay 'display "bar")
>      (split-window)))
>
> has "bar" appear in _both_ windows.  According to the manual "bar"
> should replace "foo" in the initially selected window only.
>
> (I posted this on emacs-devel before but didn't get a response.)

Sorry for not responding to your post, but the bug was fixed in
CVS 2005-09-07.

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