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bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 22:44:50 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Alp Aker <aker@pitt.edu>, 8627@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 21:22:44 +0100
>
> 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?
I promised to fix at least some of the behavior, but never did. I
will take a look soon.