From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 21468@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21468: 24.5; When next-line (visual) crosses overlay with before-string="\n" point goes to column 0
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:00:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zj013s0h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8H1GqJ-ihkH7Had9CdrWpQpJ3j1LP6F78SGSfMBdymmA@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:58:08 -0400
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: 21468@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> But when moving point to end of line this causes the cursor to appear
> >> at the edge of the window instead of at the "real" end of line. I
> >> guess it's because the aligned space pushes the newline character to
> >> the edge of the window.
> >
> > Yes. But why is that a problem?
>
> Because we want the lines to be just visual effects that don't affect
> cursor movement, i.e. the cursor should act the same whether or not
> the lines are visible.
>
> >
> > If you dislike that, you could make the stretch one column shorter,
>
> Which of course just means that the cursor appears at one column
> before the edge of the window instead of at the "real" end of line.
If you want to put the cursor there, you need an overlay with a
'cursor' property.
Or we could have a new feature whereby the stretch of white space
would allow positioning the cursor on it. Right now, the flag that
disallows positioning the cursor is hard-coded in the display engine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-02 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-13 5:17 bug#21468: 24.5; When next-line (visual) crosses overlay with before-string="\n" point goes to column 0 Noam Postavsky
2015-09-13 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-13 17:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-09-13 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-13 20:22 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-09-14 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 12:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-09-14 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-14 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 13:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-09-14 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-14 20:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-09-15 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-01 20:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-02 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-02 19:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-02 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-09 23:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-10 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 13:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-10 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 16:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-10 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 21:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-10-11 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-10 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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