Re: 2 bugs in posn-at-x-y on a tty

[Kim F. Storm]

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> There appear to be two bugs posn-at-x-y when used in an tty:

Actually, this behaviour is according to the doc string:

By default, X and Y are relative to text area of the selected window.

>
> 1) On the mode-line the string returned is one located one character to the
> left of the x co-ordinate (starts from one but should really start from 
> zero?).
> So clicking on the colon of the mode-line in an xterm returns the buffer
> coding system rather than changing the eol style.
>
> 2) The margin is not recognised. If the left-margin is 2 characters wide then
> I think that x=0, y=10 should be recognised as being in the margin
> (POS-OR-AREA should be 'left-margin and not nil) and true window co-ordinates
> should start a 2.

I have added an optional fourth arg to posn-at-x-y to make the
coordinates relative to the whole window.  You must set that
to t to get the correct position for a mode or header line.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk