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25.0.50; Cursor position behaves unpredictably on the 'display text property

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Message #20 received at 21207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21207: 25.0.50; Cursor position behaves unpredictably on the
 'display text property
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 20:43:41 +0100

2015-08-07 19:23 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
>> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:29:10 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 21207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > If I can place the cursor on the newline in the first scenario, why
>> > can't I do so in the second?
>>
>> Because we have special support for cursor positioning on display
>> strings that end in a newline
>
> More importantly: in the first scenario the newline ends the display
> string, whereas in the second it is in its middle.

Isn't it at the start of the display string?

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