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bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#8627: 24.0.50: cursor property behaves irregularly in before-strings |
Date: |
Fri, 06 May 2011 10:53:30 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Note that, crucially, the before-string and after-string properties
> are not described in this section. They are described elsewhere,
> where the `cursor' property is not mentioned. So I wonder if the
> `cursor' property was really supposed to work with before-strings and
> after-strings...
The only use of `cursor' of which I remember is in minibuffer-message,
on an after-string. It's used when we display " [Sole completion]" and
such messages.
So, yes, it's supposed to work on before/after-strings ;-)
Stefan