> Paul, please see that your original problem is now solved.
No, don't see any change in behavior.
> (Btw, I think it's a subtle bug in Magit that it assumes cursor motion
> will never end up on invisible text in such buffers.)
I don't think it is a bug. It is explicitly promised in Elisp manual as I see:
> 22.6 Adjusting Point After Commands
> ===================================
>
> Emacs cannot display the cursor when point is in the middle of a
> sequence of text that has the ‘display’ or ‘composition’ property, or is
> invisible. Therefore, after a command finishes and returns to the
> command loop, if point is within such a sequence, the command loop
> normally moves point to the edge of the sequence, making this sequence
> effectively intangible.
That's why, btw, I couldn't create a testcase: I don't know how to emulate
command loop.
Paul