Subject: bug#39247: 26.3; inappropriate mouse pointer shapes

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:36:05 +0900

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> severity 39247 minor
> thanks
>
>> From: [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:25:09 +0900
>> 
>> (1)'text shape on mode-line.
>>    Move the mouse pointer onto the line number in the mode-line
>>    at the bottom of the emacs frame.
>>    Move the pointer to the right SPC.
>>    Then the pointer shape is 'text.
>>    (With (setq resize-mini-windows nil), this does not occur.)
>
> This part seems reasonable to me, not a bug: when resize-mini-windows
> is nil, you can resize the mini-window by dragging the mode line with
> the mouse, and that's what the mouse pointer shows you when it's over
> that area of the mode line.  When resize-mini-windows is non-nil, you
> cannot resize the mini-window.

If the pointer is moved onto the SPC area directly from outside of the
mode-line, the pointer shape is a north-west arrow.
I can not distinguish which shape is used, 'arrow, 'mode-line or 'vdrag.