Re: mouse-avoidance-fancy-hook patch

jpw> `mouse-position' is only broken insofar as it faithfully jpw> obeys its documentation... This figures. jpw> GNU Emacs' `mouse-position' returns positional values based jpw> on standard character cells, even if the cursor isn't over a jpw> character. Is this broken according to their doc, or do they have a different specification for the function? Either way, someone should get in touch with the GNU Emacs project to adjust this. I have my preferences, see below. jpw> I guess `mouse-position' could do something similar, or jpw> preferably better. I don't know whether any XEmacs specific jpw> code relies upon `mouse-position' returning (nil nil) when jpw> not over a character though. The code you wrote is broken for proportional fonts, and for many historical character cell fonts. Consider any buffer containing native widgets. (What _should_ `mouse-position' do in that case, I wonder?) However, rather than make a new function or break `mouse-position', I would add a new (keyword) argument :force-estimate, which would estimate based on distance from current line-ending to mouse xpos, and current baseline to mouse ypos -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py