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24.5; Undesirable Cursor Jump After Movement with M-left or M-right in Term-Mode

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From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 24837 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 21609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21609: bug#24837: 26.0.50; term.el: In char mode, displayed
 and executed commands can differ
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:11:17 +1300

On 10/10/17 04:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> +*** New user options `term-char-mode-buffer-read-only' and
>> +`term-char-mode-point-at-process-mark'

> I have a difficulty understanding why the user would like to change
> the values of these options from their defaults.  How about revising
> this text to describe (a) the default behavior, and (b) when would
> someone want to change that by tweaking these options?

I'm likewise not sure whether users will *actually* want to do this.
I just wanted to make sure that they had the ability to do so, in case
these changes somehow interfered with their workflows (given that these
are notable changes to some long-standing behaviour).

I could 'demote' them to plain defvars, if we think that their use is
so unlikely that they don't actually warrant being included in the
customize group?

In any case I'll see if I can improve the wording...


-Phil

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