Re: cursor-type as bar

[Markus Gritsch]

Kim F. Storm writes:
> Markus Gritsch <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Richard Stallman wrote:
> >>     To really be usable, the bar cursor should be drawn *between* the
> >>     characters, e.g. shifting it width/2 pixels to the left.
> >> I thought the bar cursor WAS drawn between the characters.
> >> If that is not the case, it is a bug--would someone please fix it?
> >
> > Just being curious: Is there any progress with this issue?
>
> I looked at it briefly.
>
> The problem is that the current code expects the cursor to be drawn
> inside a single "character cell".  Consequently, to distribute a bar
> cursor of width > 1 evenly between two cells requires non-trivial
> changes to the redisplay code (and the changes must be made to each of
> the X, w32, mac ports).
>
> IMO, we shall not do anything about it before the release.

Now since the release is over, is there any chance this gets fixed?  I
tried looking at the code in xdisp.c and w32term.c, but since I am no
C programmer, I am not able to do something useful there myself :/

Kind regards,
Markus