From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13473: 24.3.50; Display Tables doc bug Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:33:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87a7wbjua2.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87fw20oyir.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> <878tbw9xn2.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <87inazk869.fsf@gmx.net> <83zi4bwinq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518633172 28324 195.159.176.226 (14 Feb 2018 18:32:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:32:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 13473@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 19:32:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1em1qv-0005X5-Kb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:33:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83zi4bwinq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:06:01 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:9/SNs4lKqBI33uV9Mn7IAf+4TfMD1v3eZFJ1Ihj5YtjVgmCpuOH Fmr17UfjZOovSjUexjdEHsXZ4R4UQgLl0xVWRgsZY1PuMaoNAkE4GtORMYHMHtptXcDuJGl Fn5hqlkt2hI9PMp7Jz8IK1r6+I5kqHABUN4zT8QaYf9vzDQiIkptXVlFeiS+66mnYeOF86t mkoyLR+GOL/XWcFx8p2ow== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:jCGHWRSjzeo=:m61WR6A3ZB3If+NTfaVj88 laO2Dmb1Ua2TEgijoRiW8skLokhJHRZEnp1pMvTX9kP9ROuoLzzTbXFeGpyBNfsCxXU2vqouI NNO5T35wTUhjhZPrpr92rMysdoKW5fbb/1065fI+Vcdyml3kd2R/2YKon09p4aCjEkdrUqVt7 H9/Vdy5AagvF0CYqCWK2o4/pX0ka2YSuMc/uXifHiG0SbnbEDIvU9M9N184CiUyX3Ox122w08 SwbLgSMF9sjc0vkfKChh8fD0iGOdFEYTUxSK45rkd2DW9Vo4Q40quiinZUDxgLqkPh6m+lG1b pLMpzaA1Yw9yJ4jmulEhCZxAwjNB92SZWfwrBufsLMAtR6MOfntTXoGBh4fVjEyLM3l76SZn5 Ydr53CDdTtCJbbRGRD6y3CIZVgokePhRnWwaUFYSrlWsY/3rzfjTWyumQDAPRlOpZ1ry/qVUD KBc5v4X4+qn7U/YhdlRaiBKBmAwIW+/aznFML4qavluuR0pLfc8qEfklfi0milNgyp0bCZRZC niSYXcuXO/iAcB8WXQhYDZYhQqH86h6KRbw8Oc2/IxtJRZoqupkYji0QBFXwkvi1EbGs3JxOj UP3FY24OpZADT8At/Z5KYbtORQsmVE80RRj97v/b3BwrSZy/tkFOUmVq8QPxwCOWmWMpu00sB F5aS6vZt1pgh+VMEacOfGzESPi70XOxOB81JiwEwKO/tt/bWXRygVrBt+zPTuRWpseFqv/ra4 /xagNo/5hQ1Fold5qio1CRAeJR++/llpYOIjCAiI+N9OS+XI5ACcRs9N8AAVFvTqEzr5bBJs X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143282 Archived-At: On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:06:01 +0200 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Stephen Berman >> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:33:18 +0100 >> Cc: 13473@debbugs.gnu.org >> >> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:18:41 -0500 Noam Postavsky >> wrote: >> >> > Stephen Berman writes: >> > >> >> The glyph used to draw the border between side-by-side windows (the >> >> default is @samp{|}). @xref{Splitting Windows}. This takes effect only >> >> when there are no scroll bars; if scroll bars are supported and in use, >> >> ! a scroll bar separates the two windows. On graphical terminals, Emacs >> >> ! uses a thin line to indicate the border, so the display table has no >> >> ! effect. >> >> @end table >> > >> > If it's only effective on a tty display, then is the scroll bar >> > reference irrelevant? AFAIK, there are never scroll bars on a tty >> > display anyway. >> >> I think that's right, so the above is misleading (with or without the >> change). > > Careful here: the same could be said about the truncation and > continuation glyphs (and in fact, the manual actually did say that), > but it's incorrect, because those glyphs _are_ used on GUI frames when > the user disables the fringes. > > So any such "irrelevancy" must be qualified by "currently" etc., > because no one prevents us from implementing a feature whereby they > will be used. > > I will soon install the following: Thanks, this is a good fix (and also addresses Martin's concern). Steve Berman