Subject: bug#21468: 24.5; When next-line (visual) crosses overlay with before-string="\n" point goes to column 0

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 12:51:06 -0400

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:37:43 -0400
>> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>>
>> The 2nd case
>>
>>    emacs -Q -l 21468-overlay.el -f 21468-test-eol-col-movement
>>
>> then hit C-e C-n. Point lands at the end of line 8 instead of line 8,
>> column 33 which is what happens when there is no overlay.
>
> This is not a bug: vertical-motion doesn't know about the 'cursor'
> property, so it works as if the property didn't exist.

Okay, that makes sense, but it means this approach is worse than
overlayed newlines for magit.