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24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8627 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alp Aker <aker <at> pitt.edu>
Subject: bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100

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

> This cannot possibly work, not without rewriting the Emacs display
> engine in ways I don't intend to.  Quite simply, you cannot put the
> `cursor' property on a newline that belongs to a string, because a
> newline, obviously, doesn't have a graphic representation (a glyph) on
> the screen, it just causes Emacs to continue drawing on the next
> screen line.

[...]

> I will eventually update the documentation with this caveat.

This was ten years ago -- I didn't check whether the documentation has
been updated, but there doesn't seem to be anything more to do here than
that?

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