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bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-
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Magnar Sveen |
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bug#13863: 24.2; Cursor position after after-string on overlay at point-max |
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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:31:30 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.9; emacs 24.2.1 |
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