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27.1; using 'bar cursor, mouseclick is rounded to the wrong char position

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From: Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber <at> protonmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.1;
 using 'bar cursor, mouseclick is rounded to the wrong char position
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:42:28 +0000

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When using 'bar as cursor, the click location is truncated to the value before the character one clicks on (as expected when using a 'box). When using a 'bar, however, one expects that the "hill" is in the center of each character, and the valley between them. I've made an illustration, where the green color shows the watershed, so to speak.

This behavior feels subtly broken.

A solution to the issue has been suggested https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/20279/mouse-pointer-between-characters-and-the-text-cursor-misplacement

Using the modified function posn-set-point below fixes the issue for me. I find the behavior also reasonable for 'box, but that might be a matter of discussion.

(defun posn-set-point (position)
"Move point to POSITION.
Select the corresponding window as well."
(if (not (windowp (posn-window position)))
(error "Position not in text area of window"))
(select-window (posn-window position))
(let ((pos (posn-point position)))
(if (numberp pos)
(goto-char (if (and (eq 'bar (or (car-safe cursor-type) cursor-type))
(< pos (point-max))
(consp position)
(numberp (car-safe (posn-object-x-y position)))
(numberp (car-safe (posn-object-width-height position)))
(> (* 2 (car (posn-object-x-y position)))
(car (posn-object-width-height position))))
(1+ pos)
pos)))))

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