Re: Cursor positioning with `after-string' overlays

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:54:16 +0200
> 
> CUA rectangle mode may use the old behaviour to place cursor midway
> through a tab character - I cannot judge from your example if that
> is still working with the trunk code, and I don't have time to check
> one out (I got lost in the Bazaar)...
> 
> But you can easily try it out.
> Just enter:
> 
> M-x cua-mode RET
> a C-q C-i b
> C-a C-RET C-f C-f C-f ..
> 
> cursor should move successively from a through the tab until it reaches b

You are right, it doesn't work.  But it doesn't work in Emacs 23.1 and
in Emacs 22.3, either, at least not on MS-Windows and on GNU/Linux.

Are you sure the recipe is correct?  If so, in what version of Emacs
did it work for you?