From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Magnar Sveen <magnars@gmail.com>
Cc: 13863-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:19:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831ubuuddg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w4cnpahakrq7vx.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Magnar Sveen <magnars@gmail.com>
> Cc: 13863@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:31:30 +0100
>
> > IOW, when Emacs is too dumb to put the cursor where you want, you can
> > guide it with the 'cursor' text property.
>
> Thanks Eli, this solved my problem.
>
> > Emacs always behaved like that with after-string display.
>
> Normally I'd say that something always having been like that, is not a
> good argument against fixing unintuitive and buggy behavior. However, in
> the case of Emacs and its exceedingly large code base and dependents, I
> see greater value in backwards compatibility.
I meant that after-string display was explicitly coded this way since
day one. IOW, it's not a regression.
I will close the bug, then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-04 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-03 19:19 bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max Magnar Sveen
2013-03-03 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-04 19:31 ` Magnar Sveen
2013-03-04 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-04 21:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-05 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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