From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:19:23 +0200 Message-ID: <831ubuuddg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83mwuktc36.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362428456 3857 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2013 20:20:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 20:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13863-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Magnar Sveen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 04 21:21:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbss-000266-0P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:21:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbsW-0005aj-EG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:20:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbsR-0005YD-5p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:20:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbsL-0003ZP-Rx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbsL-0003ZJ-O2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:20:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbsb-0007KF-UR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:21:01 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 13863 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 13863@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, magnars@gmail.com Original-Received: via spool by 13863-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D13863.136242841928106 (code D ref 13863); Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13863-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Mar 2013 20:20:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59163 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbrt-0007JH-T2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:43788) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UCbrr-0007Iy-C3 for 13863-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:20:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJ500800K0SH600@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 13863-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:19:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJ5008SIKGH8BB0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:19:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:72093 Archived-At: > From: Magnar Sveen > 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.