From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing pointer shape in Windows Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:50:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48E24187.2000508@RickMohr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222883442 1454 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2008 17:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:50:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rick Mohr Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 01 19:51:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kl5rP-0000tq-W1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:51:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kl5qM-00067g-Gy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kl5pz-00065f-H2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kl5py-000649-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36818 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kl5py-00063z-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:58082) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kl5py-0002j6-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH2e71.bah.pppool.de [77.135.46.113]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E77218AFA865; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:50:12 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <48E24187.2000508@RickMohr.net> (Rick Mohr's message of "Tue\, 30 Sep 2008 11\:11\:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58260 Archived-At: Rick Mohr wrote: >the I-beam pointer behaves differently than in other windows >applications. In Emacs, clicking on any part of a character places the >cursor before that character. In other windows applications, clicking >on the left half of a character places the cursor before that character >but clicking on the right half of a character places the cursor after >that character. Unfortunately, I don't have a solution for you. However, I'd consider this a bug. This detail has probably just been overlooked. Could you report it? regards, Nikolaj Schumacher