bug#1258: hbar cursor assumes width of TAB character

bug#1258: hbar cursor assumes width of TAB character

[Bernhard Koenig]

I noticed that the hbar cursor can be bigger than 1 character if there
is a TAB in that line. That's surprising as the other cursors do not
behave like that. To reproduce:

-switch to the hbar cursor (I used the extension cursor-chg.el)
-load a file with many tabs (usually your .emacs file will do) and scroll down

the cursor will become lengthy.

bug#1258: marked as done (hbar cursor assumes width of TAB character)

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From: "Bernhard Koenig" <b.a.koenig@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: hbar cursor assumes width of TAB character
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:59:17 -0400
Message-ID: <de34c09f0810252059n247e9569nfe7d46ecbded9ba6@mail.gmail.com>

I noticed that the hbar cursor can be bigger than 1 character if there
is a TAB in that line. That's surprising as the other cursors do not
behave like that. To reproduce:

-switch to the hbar cursor (I used the extension cursor-chg.el)
-load a file with many tabs (usually your .emacs file will do) and scroll down

the cursor will become lengthy.



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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Bernhard Koenig" <b.a.koenig@googlemail.com>
Cc: 1258-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: hbar cursor assumes width of TAB character
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:25:12 -0400
Message-ID: <8763ndfzg7.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> I noticed that the hbar cursor can be bigger than 1 character if there
> is a TAB in that line. That's surprising as the other cursors do not
> behave like that.

I've checked in a fix.  Thanks.

bug#1258: marked as done (hbar cursor assumes width of TAB character)

[Johan =?UTF-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd]

>> I noticed that the hbar cursor can be bigger than 1 character if there
>> is a TAB in that line. That's surprising as the other cursors do not
>> behave like that.
>
> I've checked in a fix.  Thanks.

IMO the hbar cursor should obey `x-stretch-cursor'.

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Johan Bockgård