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 22:41:57 +0300
> 
> >> Why not prefer the former?
> >
> > Insertion point, I think.  If you type characters, they will appear on
> > the next line, which is confusing.
> 
> Isn't it the same in the absence of any overlays, if point is under the 
> edge of the window (and so the cursor is displayed on the margin)?

No, in that case the characters are inserted before the newline,
i.e. on the same line.

> > But once again, you wanted a solution that will work with currently
> > released Emacs, so such changes are out of scope for now.
> 
> 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.