GNU bug report logs - #9607
incorrect behavior with "automatic-hscroll-mode nil" in ncurses/vt220 text operation; wrong in 23 but ok in 22.1

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Lawless <david_lawless <at> flumedata.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #34 received at 9607-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rgm <at> gnu.org, 9607-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david_lawless <at> flumedata.com
Subject: Re: bug#9607: incorrect behavior with "auto-hscroll-mode nil"
	in	ncurses/vt220 text operation; wrong in 23 but ok in 22.1
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:06:13 +0300
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:07:20 -0400
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 9607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david_lawless <at> flumedata.com
> 
> The problem is that line-move-visual assumes that the move begins with
> cursor positioned at point, which is false when auto-hscroll-mode is
> turned off and point is scrolled out of view.
> 
> Before I dive into this mess (again), do we even want to support
> auto-hscroll-mode nil _and_ visual line movement?  What if we tell
> line-move to invoke logical line movement instead when
> auto-hscroll-mode is off?  Would someone object?

No one objected, so I fixed this in revision 105959 on the trunk by
disabling visual line movement when auto-hscroll-mode is disable and
the window is hscrolled.




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