Selecting region & setting point with mouse at left border

[David Reitter]

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

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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
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  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
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  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
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  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol