GNU bug report logs - #75855
31.0.50; Cursor positioning in mini-window and echo-area

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Message #10 received at 75855-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75855-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75855: 31.0.50;
 Cursor positioning in mini-window and echo-area
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:05:53 +0200

> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:12:24 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
>   $ emacs -Q -nw
>   C-x 5 b RET
>   M-: (frame-visible-p (next-frame))
> 
> After typing the last line above into the minibuffer, don't press RET.
> Instead, move the cursor left one character with C-b, so that the
> cursor is after the penultimate right parenthesis, and type "C-x C-e".
> This should evaluate the (next-frame) part and show the result in the
> echo-area.  But note that, while showing the result of the evaluation,
> the cursor is not at the end of the value returned by next-frame, but
> several places to the right, after some empty space.  This doesn't
> happen in Emacs 30.

This is now fixed on the master branch, probably by one of the recent
changes regarding cursor positions on TTY frames.  So I'm closing this
bug.

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