You apparently already know how to change the (text) cursor style, and have opted for a bar. If you choose a box cursor then the box is placed on top of the character to the right of the insertion point. You can use a narrow vertical bar or a box, hollow or solid (on some platforms there might be additional options). Third, as for the representation of the (text) cursor: you have a choice. Even if it were to behave and be conceived as replacing an existing character by the one you want to insert, that insertion would still be between two chars (or before the first or after the last). Second, insertion of a character is always between characters (or before the first or after the last character). It seems that you mostly talking about the latter, but referring to it as the "cursor". With a cursor in a traditional terminal style of a full-character rectangle this issue would not be so evident.įirst, you are apparently confusing the mouse pointer with the text cursor (aka cursor). I suppose I need to clarify that I use a thin cursor of 2-pixel-wide vertical bar (i.e. Or, to shift the mouse cursor hot point to the right for the emacs windows.
In my opinion the correct behavior would be to position the point to the left of the character only when the mouse cursor is over the left half of the character, and put it to the right otherwise.Īn obvious solution to this would be to draw the mouse cursor offset by half a character width to the left from what it is in emacs by default. If you, by muscle memory acquired from years of work in other editors, click exactly between two characters (or just a single pixel to the left for that matter) you end up with the point one character back from what was intended for it. In other words, to put the point somewhere in the text with the mouse you need to click on the character to the right of the place of expected point appearance.
I mean when the mouse cursor is exactly between two consequent characters, clicking mouse puts the point one character back from the mouse position. Selecting text with mouse in emacs is drastically different from all other editors in both X Window and MS Windows. Why draw the mouse cursor in emacs window with vertical thin bar if you cannot effectively position it between characters? Mouse cursor position interpretation in emacs drives me nuts.
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