Re: Fwd: overlay face property not used for after-string property

[Richard Stallman]

    I don't think I can fix it, but I remember discussion of something similar
    a few years ago where the conclusion was thatit was better to not apply a
    property of the overlay (e.g. `face' although I believe the discussion was
    about `invisible') to the (after|before)-string because it's easier to add
    this property manually to the relevant string than to "undo" the effect of
    the overlay's property from the string.

That sounds like a valid argument -- but it applies equally to the
before-string and the after-string.  It can't be right to apply the
property to one and not the other.

Can someone write a patch so that the overlay's face property (and
other display-related properties) won't apply to its before-string?

Joe, what do you think about that as a solution?