windmove bug

[joakim]

Symptoms:


"windmove" is a package included with emacs to conveniently jump between text 
windows in an emacs frame.

the algorithm to find which window to jump to, doesnt always "do the right 
thing", imho.

For instance, make a window layout like this:

+-----+-----+
| A   | B   |
+-----+-----+
| C   | D   |
+-----+-----+


eval
(windmove-default-keybindings)
to get the bindings

place cursor in uppermost left position of window D

do "shift up"

the cursor will jump to window A

I believe it should jump to window B

It matters where you split the windows, and it matters if the cursor
is close to a border when jumping or not.



Incidentally I think "windmove" is very useful in the emacs paradigm,
since it further reduces the need for a mouse, and that it should be
easier to find out about it.

I think also its a problem that windmove doesnt have the best set of
default keyboard bindings to use when on a terminal.

In my case it was very difficult to set up so that emacs would receive
shift-arrow keys.





In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.14)
 of 2005-03-01 on naru.home
configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--with-x' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' 
'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' 'CFLAGS=-g''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  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
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
B ESC O 2 C ESC O 2 A ESC O 2 B ESC O 2 A ESC O 2 B 
ESC O 2 A C-x ^ C-x ^ C-x ^ ESC O 2 B ESC O 2 A ESC 
O 2 A ESC O 2 B ESC O 2 B ESC O 2 C ESC O 2 A ESC O 
2 A ESC O 2 B ESC O 2 B ESC O 2 C ESC x e m a c SPC 
b SPC DEL C-a C-k r e p o SPC r SPC SPC SPC b SPC DEL 
RET

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