On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:40:07 -0500 (EST)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
One thing I've noticed is that moving the cursor with the mouse to a
new line tends to leave cursor droppings behind, i.e., eventually you
end up with black blotches scattered around the screen until you do
a CTRL-L to clean it up.
yes - I recall commenting on it a while back, and spending some time
to try to resolve it. I think it's due to the logic which grabs the
text-cursor (termed the "Caret"), as it's used in fshow_cursor and
fhide_cursor. If the cursor isn't hidden, then it would leave a more
noticeable trail - it's been a couple of years since I last dug into it.
I paid more attention today and noticed that droppings only appear if,
for some reason unknown to me, the cursor block disappears. After that,
even moving the cursor with h-j-k-l leaves a trail.