cursor placement on mouse click

cursor placement on mouse click

[David Reitter]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Eric Bailey <ebailey@cs.stanford.edu>
> Date: 12 June 2007 21:48:01 BDT
> To: aquamacs-bugs@aquamacs.org
> Subject: [Aquamacs-bugs] Cursor placement issues on mouse click
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> If I click on what appears to be the right half of a character in the
> buffer, the I-beam cursor will appear to the _left_ of that
> character; I would expect it to be on the right.  The hit detection
> is definitely off; the exact place to click on a character to get the
> cursor on the right of it appears to begin about 10-20% from the
> right edge of the drawn area for that character.
>
> For example, if I have the string 'ad' and I want the cursor to
> appear between 'a' and 'd', I could click on the right edge of
> 'a' (the vertical part), the whitespace in between the two
> characters, or anywhere on 'd' excluding its right vertical edge.
>
> Needless to say, the normal mouse targeting of click and type leads
> to a lot of misplaced text.


I agree with the OP and would like to see the behavior changed,  
however, only in case `cursor-type' is set to `bar' or to ('bar .  
width).

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Re: cursor placement on mouse click

[Juri Linkov]

> I agree with the OP and would like to see the behavior changed,  however,
> only in case `cursor-type' is set to `bar' or to ('bar .  width).

And not in overwrite-mode where clicking on a character means the user
wants to replace it.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/