From: John Chandler <chandler@cfa.harvard.edu>
To: 16181@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:36:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201312180136.rBI1aUj9050387@cfa0.cfa.harvard.edu> (raw)
emacs-version:
GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.9) of 2013-07-17 on c6b10.bsys.dev.centos.org
installed as part of CentOS 6.5
When a macro performs some editing tasks and then moves "point"
forward using a (forward-line 1) at a time when the current line wraps
and extends outside the viewing window, emacs often loses track of
"point" and leaves it somewhere near the middle of the viewing window.
The same macro invocation will work properly if the entire current
line is visible in the window when the editing tasks are done, even if
the beginning of the next line is outside the window. But it will
fail if the editing tasks performed by the macro cause the line to
wrap outside the window before the final (forward-line 1). This
behavior does not depend on the setting of line-move-visual. The
following macro is a short example:
(defun ttt() "add tag from start" (interactive)
(save-excursion
(goto-char 0)
(copy-to-register 26 (point) (progn (forward-word 1)(point)) t))
(insert-register 26)
(forward-line 1))
The file to be edited using this macro should begin with a line
containing a list of words to be inserted in front of a succession of
lines in the file. If the lines in the file generally wrap,
especially if they wrap multiple times each, the successive
application of the macro should quickly trigger the bug.
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.9)
of 2013-07-17 on c6b10.bsys.dev.centos.org
configured using `configure '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-dbus' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xft' '--with-xpm' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: en_US
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: ascii8
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Apropos
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
column-number-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
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C-f r b DEL b . x RET C-s c h e k DEL c k ESC O C C-s
a C-g C-s SPC a g C-x 0 C-s C-w C-r C-r C-g ESC O B
ESC O B ESC O A ESC O A C-s C-w C-s C-s C-g C-g C-r
C-r ESC O B ESC O B ESC O B C-a ESC b C-s C-w C-r C-r
C-e C-r d . ESC f ESC f SPC S e p SPC 2 3 SPC a e :
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SPC P DEL p : 4 6 8 - 2 0 C-r SPC i RET . 7 . 2 ESC
f ESC f ESC f SPC b y : d y s e n t e r y C-u ESC d
C-y C-e ESC b ESC f C-y C-a C-s C-w C-s ESC O B ESC
O B ESC [ 5 ~ ESC O A ESC O A ESC O A ESC O B ESC O
B ESC O A C-a C-s C-w C-r C-r C-r C-g ESC [ 1 8 ~ ESC
[ 1 8 ~ C-h a b u g s RET C-h a b u g RET ESC [ 1 8
~ ESC [ 6 ~ ESC [ 6 ~ ESC x r e p o TAB r TAB RET
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next reply other threads:[~2013-12-18 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-18 1:36 John Chandler [this message]
2014-02-26 20:31 ` bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point - partial workaround Chandler, John
2021-05-30 5:26 ` bug#16181: 23.1; losing track of point Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-30 19:23 ` Chandler, John
2021-05-31 5:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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