Re: [Ebib-users] Multiline fields in Index Entry

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Massimo Lauria wrote:
> I have an issue with ebib.  I set up the Index Display Fields
> to show
> Year; Author; Title.
> 
> Sometimes these fields are multiline (notice that i've no full control
> of all .bib files).
> This results in some entries to span several lines in the index buffer.

Mmm... This shouldn't really be happening... The index buffer uses
ebib-index-mode, which sets the variable truncate-lines to t. That should cause
lines that are too long for the window to be truncated rather than to be wrapped.

> This produces two bugs:
> - (minor) only one line of the entry is highlighted
> - (major)
> when I move up/down or using whatever keys trigger ebib-prev/next-entry,
> the prev/next entry is correctly shown in the Entry buffer, but the
> cursor only moves one line up/down.
> Since there are entries spanning more than one line, this completely
> disconnect position in the database with the
> cursor position in the  index buffer.

This is ever weirder, because even if lines are too long for the window and are
wrapped, Emacs should treat the wrapped line as a single line, so that moving
the cursor down on such a line should actually move two screen lines...

Try starting Emacs with the -Q option and then load ebib by hand (with M-x
load-file RET /path/to/ebib.el RET followed by M-x ebib) and see if the problem
still occurs. If not, then I suspect you have some setting that conflicts with
truncate-lines. If that is the case, check if you have any word-wrap-related
settings in your ~/.emacs, or send me your ~/.emacs so I can take a look.

(BTW, 'emacs -Q' doesn't load ~/.emacs, so you'll have to customize Index
Display Fields in the Emacs session before you can test it.)

Joost


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