Re: moving point and invisible text

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > The manual follows a previous version of the code, in which the position
 > after the invisible text was an impossible position.  The motive for this
 > was to avoid having two different point positions which display the cursor
 > in the same place.
 >
 > The present code seems to treat the position after the invisible text
 > as possible, and treat the position just before it as impossible.
 > It's different, but it still achieves the goal of not having two
 > point positions that display the cursor in the same place.
 >
 > I don't see any particular reason to prefer the old behavior, so I will
 > update the manual to describe the new behavior.

I don't follow you.

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*test*")
   (insert "foo\n")
   (let ((at (point)))
     (insert "bar\nbar\nbar\n")
     (overlay-put (make-overlay at (point-max)) 'invisible t))
   (insert "baz\n"))

and point at position 4 in *test* C-f moves to position 17.

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*test*")
   (insert "foo\n")
   (let ((at (point)))
     (insert "bar\nbar\nbar\n")
     (put-text-property at (point-max) 'invisible t))
   (insert "baz\n"))

and point at position 4 in *test* C-f moves to position 5.  Hence when
using a text-property the position before invisible text is possible.