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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: even more(1) tells you how big the file is on the first screen
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E9AEBAF.3050608@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4535.1050287953.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Richard Stallman wrote:

> When the window start is at the top of the buffer,
> the percentage of the buffer above the top is always 0.
> I don't think "0%" is clearer than "Top".
> 
> In the case of Bot, some real information is actually omitted.
> However, the information that the bottom of the buffer is on the screen
> is also useful.


Agreed.  But would it be possible to provide an additional mode line format

code analagous to %p but measuring the percent of the buffer below the bottom
of the window?  Then users like Dan could add that to their customized 
mode-line-format and have both values.

-- 
<a href="mailto:&lt;kevin.rodgers&#64;ihs.com&gt;">Kevin Rodgers</a>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-14 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-13  2:34 even more(1) tells you how big the file is on the first screen Dan Jacobson
2003-04-14  2:36 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-14 20:57   ` Dan Jacobson
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4612.1050362964.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-15 20:59     ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-04-16  4:09       ` Dan Jacobson
     [not found] ` <mailman.4535.1050287953.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-14 17:11   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.4502.1050203467.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-13 10:10 ` David Kastrup

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