bug#4564: marked as done (23.1; Unexpected cursor motion in horizontally scrolled lines)

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Your message dated Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:47:24 +0200
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and subject line Re: bug#4564: 23.1;    Unexpected cursor motion in 
horizontally scrolled lines
has caused the Emacs bug report #4564,
regarding 23.1; Unexpected cursor motion in horizontally scrolled lines
to be marked as done.

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> 23.1; Unexpected cursor motion in horizontally scrolled lines
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:12:55 -0400
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> To reproduce:
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>   emacs -Q
>   M-<
>   C-x 3
>   C-x <
>   (answer y to the query whether to enable the command)
>   C-x <
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> Now try C-f and C-b several times and observe the strange effects.
> After a while, it becomes apparent that point is actually outside the
> visible portion of display, and is being moved by C-f and C-b, but the
> cursor stays put in the visible portion and does not show any
> movement, except when point enters a different line.
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> Is that the correct behavior?  Isn't point supposed to be visible at
> all times?  If this is the correct behavior, it should at least be
> documented.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
>  of 2009-08-22 on fencepost
> configured using `configure  '--with-jpeg=no' '--with-png=no' '--with-gif=no' 
> '--with-tiff=no''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: nil
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   global-auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
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> Recent input:
> O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C 
> ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC 
> O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C 
> ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC 
> O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C 
> ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC 
> O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C 
> ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC 
> O C ESC O B ESC O B ESC O A ESC O A C-a C-x < y ESC 
> O B ESC O B ESC O B ESC O D ESC O C ESC O A C-e ESC 
> O C ESC O A ESC O A ESC O B C-e ESC O A ESC O A ESC 
> O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D 
> ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC 
> O D ESC O D ESC O D ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C 
> ESC O C ESC O C ESC O C C-x 1 ESC x r e p o r t - e 
> m a c s - TAB RET
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> Recent messages:
> ("/home/e/eliz/emacs-23.x/emacs-23.1/src/emacs" "-Q")
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
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> Subject: 
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> Re: bug#4564: 23.1;	Unexpected cursor motion in horizontally scrolled lines
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:47:24 +0200
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> Since no one seems to be interested in fixing this, I fixed it myself:
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>   2009-10-04  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
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>           * display.texi (Horizontal Scrolling): Document cursor behavior under
>           horizontal scrolling when point moves off the screen (Bug#4564).
>           Improve wording.
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> I still think it's a bad misfeature that the cursor get frozen on the
> window edge.  It would be better to turn it off, if the terminal
> supports that, like we do when auto-hscroll-mode is turned OFF.  In
> particular, when text is hscrolled left and auto-hscroll-mode is OFF,
> we have two different behaviors for when point leaves the displayed
> portion of the text: one behavior when point moves off the left edge,
> the other when it moves off the right edge.
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