X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C99B442.1030909@towo.net> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:46:10 +0200 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100824 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Odd apparent cursor movement in mintty (+emacs) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 22.09.2010 09:25, Gary wrote: > In some file^H^H^H^Hbuffer in emacs(-nox), with mintty maximised, cursor > movement appears incorrect - moving the cursor forward[1] (emacs' > forward-char via C-f / cursor right key) incorrectly positions the > visible cursor 'n' characters forward. The insertion position is > correct, however - it only moves one character forward. > > emacsclient 23.2, GNU Emacs 23.2.1, if it makes any difference. > > [1] backward, too, but up and down seem unaffected > > Do you have any non-ASCII characters on the affected lines? If so, it sounds like a mismatch of character encoding between mintty and emacs' assumption. What's your locale environment variables? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple