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From: Magnar Sveen <magnars@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 13863@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:31:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <w4cnpahakrq7vx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mwuktc36.fsf@gnu.org>


Eli Zaretskii writes:

> 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.

- Magnar





  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04 19:31 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 [this message]
2013-03-04 20:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-04 21:43     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-05  3:37       ` Eli Zaretskii

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