Re: overlay property `after-string'

[Miles Bader]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure that the current behaviour is a bug.
...
> In this case, it seems that the current behaviour is correct
> (i.e. the cursor is shown after "hello").

It's dependent on the insertion-type of the overlay; basically, the
cursor should be displayed relative to the overlay text wherever text
will be inserted relative to the overlay text.

For instance, try this modified version of your example:

   (let (overlay)
     (insert "abc")
     (setq overlay (make-overlay (- (point) 3) (point) nil nil t))
     (overlay-put overlay 'after-string "[hello]"))

Now type -- whoa, wierd!

-Miles
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