GNU bug report logs - #18277
24.3.93; A problem with positioning point in horizontally scrolled bidirectional text

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.93

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log


Message #10 received at 18277-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 18277-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18277: 24.3.93;
 A problem with positioning point in horizontally
 scrolled	bidirectional text
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:36:16 +0300
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:27:09 +0200
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
> 
> C-u C-h t hebrew RET
> 
> split the root window via C-x 3, provoke a horizontal scroll of the left
> window by, for example, moving the window's point to the left, move
> point of the left window to the "I" of the L2R string EDIT on line 4 and
> move my mouse cursor to the according screen position.  At this moment,
> my Emacs frame appears as in the first attached screenshot
> (mouse-click-ante.png).
> 
> Now I try to do `mouse-set-point' by doing <mouse-1>.  The left window
> scrolls horizontally back to the position it had before the previous
> horizontal scroll and the window's point moves to another position on
> the same line as in the second attached screenshot
> (mouse-click-post.png).

Fixed in revision 117446 on the emacs-24 branch.

It was a thinko in how the X coordinate was mirrored for R2L lines
that are hscrolled.




This bug report was last modified 10 years and 315 days ago.

Previous Next


GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.