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24.0.50; Bidi problem with `cursor' property

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Johan Bockgוrd <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9229: 24.0.50; Bidi problem with `cursor' property
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:19:45 +0300

> From: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:29:52 +0200
> 
> 
>     (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.)

Thanks, I will get to this soon.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

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