bug#20847: [display engine] 25.0.50; company-mode popup makes point jump to an entirely different location

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 20847@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:20:03 +0300
> 
> On 06/30/2015 11:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > No, in that case the characters are inserted before the newline,
> > i.e. on the same line.
> 
> That is also true if point is before an overlay-rendered newline, isn't it?

Yes, but that's not the situation we are talking about.  We are
talking about point being _covered" by an overlay string that ends in
a newline.

> >> What I said is, if it's a hack, then I want a hack that will work today.
> >
> > If you can avoid the leading newline in the overlay string, there's no
> > hack here.
> 
> I don't think I can. Like mentioned, it's the solution for 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/18285, which commonly appeared in 
> report-emacs-bug buffers (so it's not like a rare case I could sweep 
> under a rug).

I meant only in this special situation.