From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34476: fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:12:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7t4j64c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lg2icx3u.fsf@jidanni.org> <87eeoi7un0.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6z67t7p.fsf@gnus.org> <83364y8ze0.fsf@gnu.org> <878seq8yzo.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2mq7jk7.fsf@gnu.org> <87mu367iue.fsf@gnus.org> <83sgcy7ebz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo295wob.fsf@gnus.org> <83364x79jl.fsf@gnu.org> <83zh755udw.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0y94c8p.fsf@gnus.org> <83sgcx5mbm.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuxdxly3.fsf@gnus.org> <83r1sh5gjc.fsf@gnu.org> <87d040w3av.fsf@gnus.org> <83ft8v6hh7.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgcu4kz2.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfihld38.fsf@gnu.org> <83wo20jnwq.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh6wyy8q.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30312"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 34476@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 17:13:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xsB-0007n4-RY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41474 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xsA-0004Dk-Q3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xrj-0004Cd-JU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xri-0000lj-Jq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xri-0000UV-BM; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34476 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,gnus Original-Received: via spool by 34476-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34476.15975043431835 (code B ref 34476); Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34476) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Aug 2020 15:12:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56190 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xr4-0000TX-Vr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45130) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xr2-0000TJ-9y for 34476@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xqw-0000bE-QF; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3286 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k6xqv-0003Fo-Qg; Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:12:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zh6wyy8q.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:55:33 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:185240 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 34476@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:55:33 +0200 > > > If this is not acceptable, then we will have to go back to your > > original proposal of using Fformat_mode_line > > Yeah, I think that may be the way to go. > > > (although I'm still unhappy with doing that, as we had over the years > > quite a few complaints that the result is not exactly identical to the > > displayed mode line). > > Perhaps that's something that can be fixed? Not easily, because the display engine uses a different environment, and also temporarily changes various settings as needed, something you cannot do in Lisp. > > If the patch below is deemed "good enough", we will probably need to > > implement something similar for Fformat_mode_line, because users might > > expect the latter to produce a similarly squeezed whitespace. > > Yup. Perhaps the squeezing should just be moved into that function? See above.