bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Joseph Mingrone]

If emacs is started with:

emacs -nw -q -l /home/jrm/.emacs.d/custom-lite.el blah

with custom-lite.el only containing

(custom-set-variables
  '(column-number-mode t))

Then typing characters will cause the point to move around in unexpected
ways.  For example, when typing

12345678

into the scratch buffer, after the 8 in entered, the point is moved back
to the second column (over the 3).


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.17.4)
Repository revision: 11860f8
Repository branch: master
System Description: 13.0-RELEASE-p4

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bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:50:52 -0400
> 
> If emacs is started with:
> 
> emacs -nw -q -l /home/jrm/.emacs.d/custom-lite.el blah
> 
> with custom-lite.el only containing
> 
> (custom-set-variables
>   '(column-number-mode t))
> 
> Then typing characters will cause the point to move around in unexpected
> ways.  For example, when typing
> 
> 12345678
> 
> into the scratch buffer, after the 8 in entered, the point is moved back
> to the second column (over the 3).

I cannot reproduce this.  Does it happen with "emacs -Q"?  If not,
some of your site-init files could be related to this.

bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Joseph Mingrone]

On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 07:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:50:52 -0400

>> If emacs is started with:

>> emacs -nw -q -l /home/jrm/.emacs.d/custom-lite.el blah

>> with custom-lite.el only containing

>> (custom-set-variables
>>   '(column-number-mode t))

>> Then typing characters will cause the point to move around in unexpected
>> ways.  For example, when typing

>> 12345678

>> into the scratch buffer, after the 8 in entered, the point is moved back
>> to the second column (over the 3).

> I cannot reproduce this.  Does it happen with "emacs -Q"?  If not,
> some of your site-init files could be related to this.

It does happen with

   emacs -nw -Q -l /home/jrm/.emacs.d/custom-lite.el blah

as well.  One correction from my report above is that I said 'the
scratch buffer' above.  That's not correct.  Specifying some empty, or
non-existent file (blah above) is required.

bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
> Cc: 52128@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:56:24 -0400
> 
> > I cannot reproduce this.  Does it happen with "emacs -Q"?  If not,
> > some of your site-init files could be related to this.
> 
> It does happen with
> 
>    emacs -nw -Q -l /home/jrm/.emacs.d/custom-lite.el blah
> 
> as well.  One correction from my report above is that I said 'the
> scratch buffer' above.  That's not correct.  Specifying some empty, or
> non-existent file (blah above) is required.

Thanks, but I still cannot reproduce this strange problem on my
system, not with the current master branch anyway.

Does anyone else see this?

bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
>> Cc: 52128@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 23:56:24 -0400
>> 
>> > I cannot reproduce this.  Does it happen with "emacs -Q"?  If not,
>> > some of your site-init files could be related to this.
>> 
>> It does happen with
>> 
>>    emacs -nw -Q -l /home/jrm/.emacs.d/custom-lite.el blah
>> 
>> as well.  One correction from my report above is that I said 'the
>> scratch buffer' above.  That's not correct.  Specifying some empty, or
>> non-existent file (blah above) is required.
>
> Thanks, but I still cannot reproduce this strange problem on my
> system, not with the current master branch anyway.
>
> Does anyone else see this?

I cannot reproduce the problem either.  I used the macOS version, and
the way I compiled Emacs from sources is not exactly the same as in the
bug report, if that makes any difference.

bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Joseph Mingrone]

On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 13:04, Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> wrote:
> I cannot reproduce the problem either.  I used the macOS version, and
> the way I compiled Emacs from sources is not exactly the same as in the
> bug report, if that makes any difference.

I should have mentioned that the terminal was alacritty and it was
within a tmux session.  I just tried again with xterm and didn't see the
problem.  I just ended the tmux session in alacritty and started a new
one and no longer see the problem.

The problem _was_ reproducible, but unfortunately I have no idea what
circumstances caused it to be reproducible.  Given that restarting the
tmux session solved the problem, maybe we can close this and I can
re-open if necessary if I discover more information that pins the
problem to Emacs.

bug#52128: 29.0.50; column-number-mode causes point to jump around

[Eli Zaretskii]

tags 52128 unreproducible
close 52128
thanks

> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  52128@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:25:20 -0400
> 
> I should have mentioned that the terminal was alacritty and it was
> within a tmux session.  I just tried again with xterm and didn't see the
> problem.  I just ended the tmux session in alacritty and started a new
> one and no longer see the problem.
> 
> The problem _was_ reproducible, but unfortunately I have no idea what
> circumstances caused it to be reproducible.  Given that restarting the
> tmux session solved the problem, maybe we can close this and I can
> re-open if necessary if I discover more information that pins the
> problem to Emacs.

Done.

Thanks.