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30.0.50; move-to-column can move across lines if there is a text with display property

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From: Herman, Géza <geza.herman <at> gmail.com>
To: 64988 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64988: 30.0.50; move-to-column can move across lines if there is a text with display property
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:53:57 +0200

If there is a text with display property in a buffer, then 
move-to-column can move across lines.

Repro:
* emacs -Q
* in the scratch buffer, move the cursor to the top, and put an empty 
line at the beginning of the buffer
* execute 'M-: (put-text-property 1 2 'display "line\n")' (note: it's 
likely that the "\n" causes the problem)
* notice that the empty line becomes "line"
* while the cursor still on the first line, execute 'M-: (move-to-column 
20)'

The last command will move the cursor to the next line at column 16, 
instead of staying at the first line.

Note: I noticed this problem while using this package: 
https://github.com/jdtsmith/indent-bars.

The problem doesn't happen with emacs 28, this is the commit that 
introduced the issue:

4243747b1b8c3b7e3463822804b32e83febe2878 Fix 'current-column' in the 
presence of display strings

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