From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcus Harnisch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Box cursor at EoL Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 22:09:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <25405.40924.299467.425535@tux.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22066"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.1 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 22:26:57 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXSL-0005XQ-28 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:26:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53742 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXSJ-0004TV-TR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXBJ-0005G4-3Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXBC-0001vQ-ER for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ogXB9-0002YP-U4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:09:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -7 X-Spam_score: -0.8 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA=2.309, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NICE_REPLY_A=-1.435, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139740 Archived-At: On 06/10/2022 21.34, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > I suspect the `while-no-input` makes no difference here. > And the next three lines can be simplified to: > > (setq cursor-type > (if (eolp) cursor-type-at-eol (default-value 'cursor-type))) > >> ;; Oddly this doesn't seem to always work with Emacs 27.1. Never >> ;; noticed any problem with 26.3. >> (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'change-cursor-at-end-of-line) > > Nowadays you could also use the `pre-redisplay-function` hook which > could have some advantages, but in any case the limit of the above > approach is that it can't correctly account for all the cases where the > buffer is displayed in several windows, with some windows' cursor at > EOL and others not :-( Thank you very much for your advice. I see the issue with same buffer/multiple windows but that is a situation that is rarely part of my work pattern. When it is, I am usually not worried about trailing whitespace at the same time :)