From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 6000@debbugs.gnu.org, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#6000: describe-text-sexp does not know window-width
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:07:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8cn71us.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87simkaazt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Wed, 02 Jul 2014 02:37:10 +0300")
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> (with-selected-window (or (get-buffer-window "*Help*") (selected-window))
>> (window-width))
>
> Martin referred to this bug report from bug#17831, and I noticed
> that instead of hard-coding the "*Help*" buffer name, better would be
> to use (current-buffer) because the formatted buffer is current:
>
> (- (if (window-live-p (get-buffer-window (current-buffer) t))
> (with-selected-window (get-buffer-window (current-buffer) t)
> (window-width))
> (window-width))
> (current-column))
This sounds like a good idea to me, but there wasn't a recipe to
reproduce whatever error this bug report was talking about, so I can't
test.
Does anybody have a test case that displays the problem (in case it's
still in place after all these years)?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 12:15 bug#6000: describe-text-sexp does not know window-width Lennart Borgman
2014-07-01 23:37 ` Juri Linkov
2021-06-03 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-03 20:25 ` Juri Linkov
2021-06-04 9:18 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-04 9:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-04 12:44 ` martin rudalics
2021-06-06 9:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-06 7:42 ` martin rudalics
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