Subject: bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max

From: Magnar Sveen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:31:30 +0100

Eli Zaretskii writes:

> IOW, when Emacs is too dumb to put the cursor where you want, you can
> guide it with the 'cursor' text property.

Thanks Eli, this solved my problem.

> Emacs always behaved like that with after-string display.

Normally I'd say that something always having been like that, is not a
good argument against fixing unintuitive and buggy behavior. However, in
the case of Emacs and its exceedingly large code base and dependents, I
see greater value in backwards compatibility.

- Magnar