bug#5695: 23.1; wid-edit.el problems

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

One solution would be for widget-choose to use tmm-prompt.  Is that ok?

	Jan D.

Jan Djärv skrev:
> Dani Moncayo skrev:
>>
>> I've just noticed that the problem arises if (and only if) I start emacs
>> loading my .emacs file. So, i've been testing a bit and i've 
>> discovered that
>> the line that produces the problem is the one that sets the
>> next-screen-context-lines variable to 4.
> 
> Actually, it is the scroll-margin that does it.
> When the menu is created, point is at the last line.  Since you have 
> scroll-margin set to 1, it scrolls up.  You can't see that because you 
> have no indication, but on a graphical terminal you can see that the 
> scroll bar has moved a bit.  Unfortunately there is no way to scroll the 
> window, it is either select something or C-g.  wid-edit.el tries to set 
> a scroll-other-window command, but it somehow fails to work because of 
> the default binding to keyboard-quit.  And in any case, IT only scrolls 
> down, not up.
> 
> So, the menu created by wid-edit.el should either (or both)
> 
> 1) place point somewhere else, preferrably at the end of the first line.
> 2) provide a way to scroll the window. tmm-menubar does this so it can 
> be done.
> 
> Someone familiar with wid-edit.el must look at this.
> 
>     Jan D.
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