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

[Dmitry Gutov]

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?

> > 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).