GNU bug report logs - #9229
24.0.50; Bidi problem with `cursor' property

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:31:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.50; Bidi problem with `cursor' property
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:29:52 +0200

The `cursor' property does not work properly on overlays when
bidi-display-reordering is t and the overlay string is line wrapped.

   emacs -Q

Eval

    (let ((o (make-overlay (point-max) (point-max)))
          (s (make-string (+ 5 (window-width)) ?-)))
      (put-text-property 0 1 'cursor t s)
      (overlay-put o 'after-string s)
      (goto-char (point-max)))

The cursor is expected to be displayed before the overlay, but is
displayed after it.

(This bug makes icomplete-mode very confusing to use.)
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 293 days ago.

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