Hi, On Emacs 29, make test will fail on both bugfix and main: 5 unexpected results: FAILED test-org-colview/columns-move-left FAILED test-org-colview/columns-move-right FAILED test-org-colview/columns-new FAILED test-org-colview/columns-next-allowed-value FAILED test-org-colview/columns-update This happens since Emacs commit 4243747b1b8c3b7e3463822804b32e83febe2878: ;; Fix 'current-column' in the presence of display strings ;; * src/indent.c (check_display_width): Support calculation of width ;; of 'display' properties whose values are strings. This fixes the ;; value returned by 'current-column' when display strings are ;; present between BOL and point. (Bug#53795) There is nothing wrong in this Emacs commit. However, org-colview.el, and particularly (nth (current-column) org-columns-current-fmt-compiled) statements, e.g. in org-columns-update (also in other places) rely on current-column ignoring overlays and display properties. To see the issue interactively, one can use the following example recipe: 1. Run Emacs 29 master loading the latest bugfix/main Org branch 2. Open the following file: * H :PROPERTIES: :A: 1 :END: ** S :PROPERTIES: :A: 2 :END: 3. Put point at the beginning of the first heading 4. Run M-: (let ((org-columns-default-format "%A %A{min}")) (org-columns)) 5. Run M-: (org-columns-update "A") 6. Observe (error "Invalid column specification format: nil") caused by org-columns-update trying to retrieve the column format using the sexp relying of (current-column). Note that fixing this bug will probably require checking the logic of org-colview - one may need to dive deeply into that code. Best, Ihor