bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> This cannot possibly work, not without rewriting the Emacs display
> engine in ways I don't intend to.  Quite simply, you cannot put the
> `cursor' property on a newline that belongs to a string, because a
> newline, obviously, doesn't have a graphic representation (a glyph) on
> the screen, it just causes Emacs to continue drawing on the next
> screen line.

[...]

> I will eventually update the documentation with this caveat.

This was ten years ago -- I didn't check whether the documentation has
been updated, but there doesn't seem to be anything more to do here than
that?

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