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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
Cc: 64597-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64597: mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:37:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qh9csmx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uWxU2mor1m9YhTFWrV5IKAe4Wv_QJsjyb4vnis9ware5XuLnOmGg72ajR2_UPIhZU7QgX6KGcIT6pE6cAmg0AfYSD3YKm-jyniKLOGcs6aQ=@proton.me> (message from uzibalqa on Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:23:40 +0000)

> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:23:40 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
> Cc: 64597@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > You can try setting mode-line-compact non-nil. If even that doesn't
> > solve your problem because you make your frames too narrow, or have
> > too many minor mode lighters active at the same time, then there's
> > nothing else Emacs can do: the fact that the mode line is a single
> > screen line is currently a hard restriction in the design of the Emacs
> > display, and so extra mode-line elements are truncated on display.
> 
> The compact setting replaces multiple spaces with a single space.  It does
> not really solve the problem.
> 
> Wontfix is not a good decision.  Changes window sizes is a very common
> occurrence.  Having a hard restriction on the mode-line is quite bad design
> to continue working with.   Especially when package-defined and self-defined 
> minor modes are becoming quite common.

Thanks, noted.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-15 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-13 15:15 bug#64597: mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-13 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 21:25   ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-15  6:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-15 11:23       ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-15 11:37         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-15 11:41         ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-15 12:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-15 14:10             ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-15 14:44               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-15 14:48                 ` uzibalqa via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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