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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:18:31 +0200

> From: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:36:05 +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 cannot reproduce this (if you mean this happens when
resize-mini-windows is nil).