From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display problems in M-x term (was: terminal emulation) Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87k4d1mbn6.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307252333 20116 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2011 05:38:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 05:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: michael_heerdegen@web.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 05 07:38:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QT62u-0001jw-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QT62t-0005uM-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QT62Y-0005tu-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QT62W-0001YR-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QT62W-0001YN-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QT62W-0006YJ-9K; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k4d1mbn6.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:15:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140186 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:15:25 +0200 > Reply-To: michael_heerdegen@web.de > > The bad thing with aptitude is that it uses a Unicode letter > (character 9618) to display a scroll-bar. In some fontsets > (e.g. "startup: 13-dot"), the glyph of this char is wider than the > ASCII-characters (Bug?). Lines including this character get wrapped, > messing up the whole display. Does it help to modify the entry for that character in char-width-table so that the value is 2 instead of 1? > - If the user option `scroll-margin' has a value greater than 0, > then the terminal window gets scrolled if the cursor is near the > bottom and Emacs does a redisplay. term should set this to zero. > - `show-paren-mode': Pairs of "parens" are highlighted by default in > *terminal*. E.g. in aptitude dialogs like this: > > > +---------------------+ > |Really quit Aptitude?| > | [ Yes ] [ No ] | > +---------------------+ > > > the "parens" around "Yes" and "No" get highlighted if point is > there. Why is that a problem?