Re: address@hidden: Selecting region & setting point with mouse at left border]

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Will you be able to investigate this bug report?

I have tried to reproduce it on GNU/Linux, but it works for me.

I tried with the "variable-pitch" face, on a line with a ' as the
first character on a line -- and I can select it with the mouse
without problems.

So it seems to be a MAC specific problem.

>
> From: David Reitter <address@hidden>
> Subject: Selecting region & setting point with mouse at left border
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:17:34 +0100
>
> Hi,
>
> when a proportional font is chosen and fringe-mode is off and I have a 
> line of text that begins with a narrow glyph (character) such as '(' or 
> 'i', it is almost always impossible to define the selection 
> (click+drag) with the mouse by moving the cursor to the left hand side 
> over that character or by dragging it to the left of the frame.
>
> I can reproduce this with a current (today) CVS build on Mac OS X 
> 10.3.9 by choosing a lucida 14pt font (as defined in AquaMacs) and 
> using any elisp code in a buffer (with lots of opening parens on the 
> left) and making sure that (fringe-mode 0).
> mouse-sel-mode doesn't seem to make a difference.
> When I set pc-selection-mode to nil, I can see that I can't even move 
> the point to the left border to the left of the narrow character, so 
> setting the point with the mouse looks like the culprit to me.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
> - --
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
>   of 2005-04-19 on madonna - Aquamacs Distribution 0.9.1 beta-3
> Distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.3.9
> configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''
>
> 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: nil
>    locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
>    default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>    mouse-sel-mode: t
>    auto-compression-mode: t
>    show-paren-mode: t
>    encoded-kbd-mode: t
>    delete-selection-mode: t
>    pc-selection-mode: t
>    osx-key-mode: t
>    recentf-mode: t
>    tool-bar-mode: t
>    mouse-wheel-mode: t
>    tooltip-mode: t
>    menu-bar-mode: t
>    global-font-lock-mode: t
>    font-lock-mode: t
>    unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>    utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>    column-number-mode: t
>    line-number-mode: t
>    transient-mark-mode: t
>    next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol
>
>
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk