From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: hugo@heagren.com
Cc: 62606@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62606: [PATCH] function to align mode-line elements to right
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 17:39:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mt2hfrr4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c457017315dd02f88787813cc9cf2b8f@heagren.com> (hugo@heagren.com)
> Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 15:14:24 +0100
> From: hugo@heagren.com
> Cc: 62606@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > One possible issue with right alignment is that when the total size of
> > the mode-line text changes (e.g., the mode lighter changes), the
> > leftmost part of it will move horizontally, something that could be
> > unpleasant and even annoying.
>
> This doesn't happen with my proposed setup (though I agree it would be
> annoying if it did!). The user includes the symbol
> `mode-line-format-right-align' in their mode line format. This is a
> variable which holds a mode-line construct `(:eval
> (mode-line-format-right-align))'. So whenever the mode-line is reloaded
> (and therefore, whenever the length could change), the space used to pad
> the right-aligned part to the right is recalculated.
That recalculation is what I alluded to: the space will be different
depending on the size of the mode-line text.
> > Also, what happens if the mode-line text is longer than the window
> > width. What are user expectations in that case, and does :align-to
> > meet those expectations?
>
> Then the text overflows to the right.
I'm not sure everyone will agree with your expectations.
> > This should use display-graphic-p, not window-system.
>
> Fixed.
>
> > Did you test this in a session which has both GUI and TTY frames?
>
> Yes, it behaves correctly (i.e. right-aligns in both, even when the
> same buffer is simultaneously displayed in both).
And if then you delete all the GUI frames and only the TTY frames
remain?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-06 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-01 22:27 bug#62606: [PATCH] function to align mode-line elements to right hugo
2023-04-02 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 14:14 ` hugo
2023-05-06 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-06-05 20:45 ` hugo
2023-06-06 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-09 12:47 ` hugo
2023-06-09 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <f60acc21a937b413f6528264f233ebfe@heagren.com>
2023-06-09 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-02 16:19 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-09 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-09 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-09 16:52 ` bug#62606: R2L modelines (was: bug#62606: [PATCH] function to align mode-line elements to right) Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-19 19:06 ` bug#62606: [PATCH] function to align mode-line elements to right hugo
2023-06-24 12:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-26 10:06 ` hugo
2023-06-26 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02 12:43 ` hugo
2023-07-06 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <handler.62606.D62606.168862894016990.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-07-14 16:37 ` Juri Linkov
2023-07-17 17:56 ` Juri Linkov
[not found] ` <CALDnm53v4O9cYcYwcqGpYVb4xVOw6t+FM1xX21k7HFxWyuiSaQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <83fryrs1l8.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <87edebjcku.fsf@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <835xznro5i.fsf@gnu.org>
2024-01-21 10:20 ` João Távora
2024-01-21 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-21 10:39 ` João Távora
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