bug#59841: 29.0.50; 'before-string' text property doesn't work

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>>> Cc: 59841@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:38:53 +0600
>>>
>>> >> If that code is incorrect, the 'Display Margins' node of Emacs Lisp
>>> >> manual is also wrong.  On the fourth paragraph, it says, "put a
>>> >> ‘before-string’ property on the text".
>>> >
>>> > When did you last read the text of that node? ;-)
>>>
>>> Now.
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>    To display something in the margin _in association with_ certain
>>> buffer text, without altering or preventing the display of that text,
>>> put a ‘before-string’ property on the text and put the margin display
>>> specification on the contents of the before-string.
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Your files are outdated.  This was changed on both development
>> branches.
>
> Thanks.  I'll update.

So it seems like there is no bug here.  I'm therefore closing this bug
report.