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29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work

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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 59841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:34:17 +0600

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

>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
>> Cc: 59841 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:38:53 +0600
>> 
>> >> If that code is incorrect, the 'Display Margins' node of Emacs Lisp
>> >> manual is also wrong.  On the fourth paragraph, it says, "put a
>> >> ‘before-string’ property on the text".
>> >
>> > When did you last read the text of that node? ;-)
>> 
>> Now.
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>    To display something in the margin _in association with_ certain
>> buffer text, without altering or preventing the display of that text,
>> put a ‘before-string’ property on the text and put the margin display
>> specification on the contents of the before-string.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Your files are outdated.  This was changed on both development
> branches.

Thanks.  I'll update.

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