GNU bug report logs - #65980
30.0.50; C-e behaves surprisingly in minibuffer

Previous Next

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.0.50; C-e behaves surprisingly in minibuffer
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:51:36 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

0. emacs -Q
Sanity checks:
1. Type a command that prompts in the minibuffer and includes text that
   ends before window-width, resulting e.g. in this in the minibuffer:
   Find file: ~/src/emacs/emacs-master/INSTALL
2. Typing C-a moves point to the beginning of the file name and then
   typing C-e moves point to the end of the file name.
3. Typing M-< moves point to the beginning of the prompt and then typing
   C-e moves point to the end of the file name.
Change the input:
4. Now type a command that includes text that extends beyond
   window-width, resulting e.g. in this in the minibuffer:
   Find file: ~/src/emacs/emacs-master/java/org/gnu/emacs/EmacsLauncherPreferencesActivity.java
5. Typing C-a moves point to the beginning of the file name and then
   typing C-e moves point to the end of the file name (same as step 2).
Here's the surprising behavior:
6. Typing M-< moves point to the beginning of the prompt but now typing
   C-e fails to move point.  And if you move point to any position
   within the prompt, e.g. M-f to put point after "Find", then typing
   C-e moves point to the beginning of the prompt.

It certainly seems like a bug that C-e, i.e. move-end-of-line, fails to
move to the end of the line in step 6, and the inconsistency between the
results in step 3 and step 6 also seems like a bug.  The attached patch
ensures that C-e in step 6 moves to the end of the file name, as in step
2, and should only affect the use of C-e in the minibuffer.


In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.38, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2023-09-13 built on strobelfs2
Repository revision: 9838f786ded35fe49bbe84dd78af84df1337adbf
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101008
System Description: Linux From Scratch r12.0-19

Configured using:
 'configure -C 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3' PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/qt5/lib/pkgconfig'

[Message part 2 (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.