Re: Display problems with 'before-string in overlay

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Kim F. Storm wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yes, I looked at the code but decided it takes me too long time at the
> > moment. Kim, is this easy for you?
>
> Changes to redisplay are NEVER easy ...  
>
> I made a seemingly trivial change to fix one bug ... and two years
> later someone finds a problem with it.
>
> IMO, this is not the time to try to fix that.

Maybe not, but is not this more about positioning the cursor? The 
characters are displayed correctly. Moving to char >= 2 works correctly. 
But moving to char = 1 fails. Looks like it could be a corner case to 
me, ie something that perhaps could be fixed without general impact.

BTW I wonder if I did not complain about this two years ago too? But at 
that time I worked against a different solution since I wanted to get 
something that worked then. This time I think I need this change to get 
things working.