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From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
To: 25308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25308: Shorten long "ui-lines" in Custom buffers
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:26:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg0o2psh.fsf@bernoul.li> (raw)

Custom buffers contain two long lines, the first separating the initial
buttons from the options shown below, and the second is for symmetry, I
suppose.  This is implemented in `custom-group-value-create'.

These lines are 999 characters long.  When point ends up on the "line
line", then it ends up at the *end* of that line, scrolling all content
except for the line itself off-window.  This happens both with C-n/C-p,
as well as when using the mouse scroll wheel.

This is very distracting and I would suggest that these lines be removed
completely.  If that is not an option, then I would suggest to make the
lines short enough for them to almost always end before the window edge.
80 characters instead of 999 would do, I think.

If that is considered to be too ugly, then I would suggest setting the
`:align-to' to be just long enough to reach the edge of the window (but
never longer) at the time `custom-group-value-create' is called, using
something like:

(list 'space :align-to
      `(+ (0 . right)
          ,(min (window-hscroll)
                (- (line-end-position)
                   (line-beginning-position)))))

Thanks for considering these options.





             reply	other threads:[~2016-12-31 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-31 13:26 Jonas Bernoulli [this message]
2016-12-31 13:57 ` bug#25308: Shorten long "ui-lines" in Custom buffers Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 17:55   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-03 13:13   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-03 14:34     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-03 15:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-03 16:48       ` Stefan Kangas
     [not found] ` <handler.25308.C.15727997177484.notifdonectrl.0@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-11-04 13:21   ` bug#25308: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#25308: Shorten long "ui-lines" in Custom buffers) Jonas Bernoulli

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