Re: Weird face behavior with org-hide-emphasis-markers enabled

[D <d.williams@posteo.net>]

Hi,

After some I found the culprit!  The issue arises from
org-do-emphasis-faces.  The bug is caused by the line

(font-lock-prepend-text-property
  (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2) 'face face)

which makes the surrounding "~"s part of the box, combined with

(add-text-properties (match-end 4) (match-beginning 5)
  '(invisible org-link))

setting them invisible.  This appears to confuse Emacs.  Anything along
the lines of

(let ((num (if org-hide-emphasis-markers 4 2)))
  (font-lock-prepend-text-property
   (match-beginning num) (match-end num) 'face face))

should fix the issue.

To demonstrate the behavior, I created a MWE function reproducing the bug.

(defun mwe (start end)
  "Reproduce a weird fontification behaviour cutting off boxes."
  (interactive "r")
  (font-lock-prepend-text-property
   start end 'face '(:box (:line-width 3 :color "grey")))
  (add-text-properties (1- end) end '(invisible org-link)))


Hope that is helpful,
D.