changeset 102713:550a8bb34a0e

(widget-specify-field): Don't add a second overlay for a field with just a newline character. (widget-field-value-get): Don't reduce fields with just a space character to null. (character): Accept newline. (Bug#2689)
author Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
date Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:30:15 +0000
parents ab1b1cb08a25
children f6d9599ddae1
files lisp/ChangeLog lisp/wid-edit.el
diffstat 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lisp/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 24 01:42:12 2009 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 24 02:30:15 2009 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-03-24  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+	* wid-edit.el (widget-specify-field): Don't add a second overlay for a
+	field with just a newline character.
+	(widget-field-value-get): Don't reduce fields with just a space
+	character to null.
+	(character): Accept newline.  (Bug#2689)
+
 2009-03-24  Kenichi Handa  <handa@m17n.org>
 
 	* international/fontset.el (font-encoding-alist): Add an entry for
--- a/lisp/wid-edit.el	Tue Mar 24 01:42:12 2009 +0000
+++ b/lisp/wid-edit.el	Tue Mar 24 02:30:15 2009 +0000
@@ -342,12 +342,16 @@
 	 (or (not widget-field-add-space) (widget-get widget :size))))
     (if (functionp help-echo)
       (setq help-echo 'widget-mouse-help))
-    (when (= (char-before to) ?\n)
+    (when (and (> to (1+ from))
+	       (= (char-before to) ?\n))
       ;; When the last character in the field is a newline, we want to
       ;; give it a `field' char-property of `boundary', which helps the
       ;; C-n/C-p act more naturally when entering/leaving the field.  We
-     ;; do this by making a small secondary overlay to contain just that
+      ;; do this by making a small secondary overlay to contain just that
       ;; one character.
+      ;; We DON'T do this if the field just consists of a newline, eg
+      ;; when specifying a character, since it breaks things (below
+      ;; does 1- to, which results in to = from).  Bug#2689.
       (let ((overlay (make-overlay (1- to) to nil t nil)))
 	(overlay-put overlay 'field 'boundary)
         ;; We need the real field for tabbing.
@@ -1945,7 +1949,9 @@
 	  (set-buffer buffer)
 	  (while (and size
 		      (not (zerop size))
-		      (> to from)
+		      ;; Bug#2689.  Don't allow this loop to reduce a
+		      ;; character field to zero size if it contains a space.
+		      (> to (1+ from))
 		      (eq (char-after (1- to)) ?\s))
 	    (setq to (1- to)))
 	  (let ((result (buffer-substring-no-properties from to)))
@@ -3450,7 +3456,8 @@
   :value 0
   :size 1
   :format "%{%t%}: %v\n"
-  :valid-regexp "\\`.\\'"
+  ;; `.' does not match newline, but newline is a valid character.
+  :valid-regexp "\\`\\(.\\|\n\\)\\'"
   :error "This field should contain a single character"
   :value-to-internal (lambda (widget value)
 		       (if (stringp value)