GNU bug report logs - #13863
24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Magnar Sveen <magnars <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Magnar Sveen <magnars <at> gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max
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
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