From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cursor/tab/highlighting problems in gnome-terminal Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20080716124019.GA10820@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: <873ambl0xw.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216212342 32550 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 12:45:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 16 14:46:29 2008 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 1KJ6Op-0004fb-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:46:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ6Nx-0005o0-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ6Iz-00040u-F5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ6Ix-0003zP-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51013 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJ6Iw-0003zI-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]:34698) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJ6Ix-0003n4-GQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6GCeJNR023651; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:19 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id 9EBBF1807C; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:19 +0100 (BST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <873ambl0xw.fsf@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:55633 Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:41:15PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-07-11 12:46 +0200, Dan Davison wrote: > > > I'm using emacs22 in a gnome-terminal under ubuntu hardy. My problem > > is that I'm experiencing strange and apparently unpredictable cursor > > problems. > > This seems to be a problem with gnome-terminal, see > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514632. OK, thanks a lot for that Sven. That thread contains a mysterious workaround: (setq column-number-mode t) That does seem to make all the problems go away for me. No idea why though. Dan > > Sven