bug#22700: 25.0.91; `erc-echo-timestamps' no longer echoes timestamp for each line

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com> writes:

> We can fix this in ERC by not applying the text property to the whole
> message. I suggest not applying it to the last character. Now whenever
> you move point between messages, the timestamp gets echoed. Unless point
> winds up at the very end of the line, which is possible if you're moving
> from the end of a long message to a short message. Clearly not ideal,
> but better than the current situation.

This fix doesn't sound ideal -- if you do it this way, then it'll work
sometimes, and not other times, which sounds perhaps even more annoying.

There must be a different way to get it to work reliably.

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