Re: [vile] WinVile - weird behavior when moving cursor with mouse

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:40:07 -0500 (EST)
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > One thing I've noticed is that moving the cursor with the mouse to a
> > new line tends to leave cursor droppings behind, i.e., eventually you
> > end up with black blotches scattered around the screen until you do
> > a CTRL-L to clean it up.
> 
> yes - I recall commenting on it a while back, and spending some time
> to try to resolve it.  I think it's due to the logic which grabs the
> text-cursor (termed the "Caret"), as it's used in fshow_cursor and
> fhide_cursor.  If the cursor isn't hidden, then it would leave a more
> noticeable trail - it's been a couple of years since I last dug into it.
> 

I paid more attention today and noticed that droppings only appear if,
for some reason unknown to me, the cursor block disappears.  After that,
even moving the cursor with h-j-k-l leaves a trail.

I can't imagine why the cursor should disappear, but it does.  One of the
vagaries of WinBlows, I suppose.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn