Re: a bug in global-hl-line-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1. emacs -Q
> in *scratch* eval these:

> (setq eval-expression-print-length 2000) 
> (setq eval-expression-print-level 1000)   
> (setq print-length 2000)  
> (global-hl-line-mode 1)

> 3. eval lisp-mode-syntax-table with the output to  *scratch*
> lisp-mode-syntax-table [ C-u C-x C-e ]

> or

> C-u M-:
> Eval: lisp-mode-syntax-table
> RET

> Then look at the output using just the mouse; scroll using  <mouse-4> and 
> <mouse-5>. When one presses the left button in the middle of the output, the 
> cursor selects text instead to jump to the correct point.

> The problem is in global-hl-line-mode.

Actually the problem is much deeper than that.  But I believe it was fixed
by Kim recently.


        Stefan