From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 13473@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13473: 24.3.50; Display Tables doc bug
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:33:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inazk869.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tbw9xn2.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:18:41 -0500")
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:18:41 -0500 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> 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). I guess it's sufficient just to say "On graphical terminals,
this has no effect."[1] But maybe it would be helpful to say why it has
no effect (even though you see it when you use a graphical display):
diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index fbf943a08c..81084d7c06 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -6988,9 +6988,10 @@ Display Tables
@item 5
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.
+default is @samp{|}). @xref{Splitting Windows}. On graphical
+terminals, this has no effect: if scroll bars are in use, a scroll bar
+separates the two windows, and if scroll bars are not in use, the
+border is a thin unbroken line.
@end table
For example, here is how to construct a display table that mimics
Steve Berman
Footnotes:
[1] At least not on GTK+ builds. Someone should check other toolkits
and non-toolkit builds (I currently can't readily do that), though
it seems unlikely they would differ on this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 11:10 bug#13473: 24.3.50; Display Tables doc bug Stephen Berman
2018-02-14 1:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-14 13:33 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2018-02-14 16:05 ` martin rudalics
2018-02-14 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-14 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-14 18:33 ` Stephen Berman
2019-10-11 2:08 ` Stefan Kangas
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