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25.0.50; Some characters confuse display

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:28:37 -0400

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confuses display on my Linux console.
If you go to the second line of the text and type C-e,
the cursor appears on the final middledot.

I've seen other strange things happen just moving around on that text,
such as displaying lines in the wrong place, but I can't
reproduce them.




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Message #8 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:30:36 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:28:37 -0400
> 
> This text from a message to emacs-devel
> 
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> 
> confuses display on my Linux console.
> If you go to the second line of the text and type C-e,
> the cursor appears on the final middledot.
> 
> I've seen other strange things happen just moving around on that text,
> such as displaying lines in the wrong place, but I can't
> reproduce them.

Do the problems go away if you turn off auto-composition-mode?

Message #11 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:41:56 -0400

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  > Do the problems go away if you turn off auto-composition-mode?

Yes, they do.  The bug seems limited to when Auto-Composition mode is enabled.


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Message #16 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:48:32 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

> This text from a message to emacs-devel
>
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>    PROCVLVS·ET·IV́LIÁNVS·
>    P · S ·
>    DÉDICÁTIÓNE·DECVRIÓNIBVS·ET·
>    AVGVSTÁLIBVS·CÉNAM·DEDÉRVNT
>
> confuses display on my Linux console.
> If you go to the second line of the text and type C-e,
> the cursor appears on the final middledot.

I can reproduce this problem in Emacs 28 (on the Linux console).

Switching `auto-composition-mode' indeed fixes the problem, so perhaps
we should just do that automatically when running on the console?  Let's
see...  is that the lisp/term/linux.el file?

Let's see...  Yes, putting

  ;; Compositions confuse cursor movement.
  (global-auto-composition-mode -1)

into that file fixes the issue for me on the Linux console, and does not
seem to be triggered when running from a terminal, so I'll go ahead and
push that change.

-- 
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Message #21 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:04:17 +0200

On Aug 16 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Switching `auto-composition-mode' indeed fixes the problem, so perhaps
> we should just do that automatically when running on the console?  Let's
> see...  is that the lisp/term/linux.el file?
>
> Let's see...  Yes, putting
>
>   ;; Compositions confuse cursor movement.
>   (global-auto-composition-mode -1)
>
> into that file fixes the issue for me on the Linux console, and does not
> seem to be triggered when running from a terminal, so I'll go ahead and
> push that change.

I think auto-composition-mode should only be disabled on this terminal.

Andreas.

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Message #24 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:16:06 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:48:32 +0200
> Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Switching `auto-composition-mode' indeed fixes the problem, so perhaps
> we should just do that automatically when running on the console?  Let's
> see...  is that the lisp/term/linux.el file?
> 
> Let's see...  Yes, putting
> 
>   ;; Compositions confuse cursor movement.
>   (global-auto-composition-mode -1)
> 
> into that file fixes the issue for me on the Linux console, and does not
> seem to be triggered when running from a terminal, so I'll go ahead and
> push that change.

I think we should only do that if this happens to everyone.  Can more
people please try this recipe and report back?

Message #27 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:50:40 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> I think auto-composition-mode should only be disabled on this terminal.

Makes sense.  So would calling `(auto-composition-mode -1)' instead here
to the trick?  (I'm slightly vague on the evaluation order of the term
files...)

-- 
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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #30 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:58:42 +0200

On Aug 16 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> I think auto-composition-mode should only be disabled on this terminal.
>
> Makes sense.  So would calling `(auto-composition-mode -1)' instead here
> to the trick?  (I'm slightly vague on the evaluation order of the term
> files...)

Since auto-composition-mode is a automatic buffer-local variable, that
won't work, it would have to be made terminal-local.  Unfortunately, you
can't have both.

Andreas.

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Message #33 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:03:13 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

>> Makes sense.  So would calling `(auto-composition-mode -1)' instead here
>> to the trick?  (I'm slightly vague on the evaluation order of the term
>> files...)
>
> Since auto-composition-mode is a automatic buffer-local variable, that
> won't work, it would have to be made terminal-local.  Unfortunately, you
> can't have both.

We have terminal-local variables!?

So I guess we'll have to introduce a predicate for
`global-auto-composition-mode' that would allow us to turn on
auto-composition-mode only in buffers on certain terminals, I guess.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Message #36 received at 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, rms <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21363: 25.0.50; Some characters confuse display
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:14:52 +0200

On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:16:06 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:48:32 +0200
>> Cc: 21363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> Switching `auto-composition-mode' indeed fixes the problem, so perhaps
>> we should just do that automatically when running on the console?  Let's
>> see...  is that the lisp/term/linux.el file?
>>
>> Let's see...  Yes, putting
>>
>>   ;; Compositions confuse cursor movement.
>>   (global-auto-composition-mode -1)
>>
>> into that file fixes the issue for me on the Linux console, and does not
>> seem to be triggered when running from a terminal, so I'll go ahead and
>> push that change.
>
> I think we should only do that if this happens to everyone.  Can more
> people please try this recipe and report back?

I can reproduce the problem on the Linux console and the proposed fix
works for me: after disabling global-auto-composition-mode and then
visiting the file containing that text, the problem is gone.  (If I
first visit the file and then disable global-auto-composition-mode (or
just auto-composition-mode), I have to switch the buffer off the window
and then back to it in order to get the correct display.)

Steve Berman

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