Re: Overlay before-string property

[martin rudalics]

> Does a before-string overlay perhaps automatically pick up the face of the
> string it precedes, unless it has its own? Does it spread its own face, if
> present, to the string it precedes? If so, is such behavior a bug? What's a
> good way to deal with this?

I listed a number of problems with these but I don't know whether they
are still virulent, compare:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2005-05/msg00176.html