Subject: bug#24179: 24179

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:55:58 +0300

> From: Jonas Bernoulli <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:29:58 +0200
> 
> > It looks like I misremembered: before-strings cannot benefit from this
> > feature, because they don't conceal any buffer positions.
> 
> The manual mentions "before-strings" in the description of "cursor".
> That should probably be changed in that case.

There's a subtlety here: the before-strings and after-strings can
either conceal some buffer text (i.e. be displayed instead of that
text) or not.  The cursor property will only be in effect in the
former case, whereas magit-bame uses the latter.

So the manual is not wrong, it just doesn't reveal this subtlety.