Subject: bug#10395: 24.0.92; line-prefix text inherits face properties from the preceding line rather than following text

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:12:06 -0500

> From: David Edmondson <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:15:36 +0000
> 
> Perhaps I should update the bug to read 'why is the line-prefix at point
> == 1 shown with the properties of the following character', though. Is
> there special code for handling that case?

It's an implementation detail.  For the prefix at the beginning of the
buffer, the display iterator is loaded in advance with the face of the
first character of the buffer.  For other lines, it is loaded with the
face of the last character processed in the previous line.