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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Allen Li <vianchielfaura@gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 30056@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30056: 25.3; battery-mode-line-string missing leading space
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:43:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuxa39c7.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJr1M6ck1nD=f4-KiMH2dhG3ErpTR35uE+ejF2u_=S+5QrVS_A@mail.gmail.com> (Allen Li's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:18:21 -0800")

Allen Li <vianchielfaura@gmail.com> writes:

> The cause of this odd behavior is that display-battery-mode appends
> and removes its symbol in global-mode-string when it is toggled on or
> off, while display-time-mode only appends its symbol and does not
> remove it when it is toggled off.  The reason display-battery-mode
> comes first after Emacs starts is because of how the custom file
> works; user options are sorted alphabetically and display-battery-mode
> comes first, so it is appended first.
>
> Naturally, this has some implications for whether each display uses
> leading, trailing, or no space.

Indeed.  Just a random idea: Would it make sense to add a mode line
construct like "%S" to mode-line-format that means "put a space here if
there isn't one already"?  Then battery could put "%S<current string"
into the list?

Would that work?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-10 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-10  3:26 bug#30056: 25.3; battery-mode-line-string missing leading space Allen Li
2018-01-10  8:45 ` bug#30056: [PATCH] Add leading space to battery-mode-line-format Allen Li
2018-01-10 15:29 ` bug#30056: 25.3; battery-mode-line-string missing leading space Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-10 17:06   ` Glenn Morris
2018-01-10 19:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-10 23:26       ` Allen Li
2018-01-11 15:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-12  8:18           ` Allen Li
2020-08-10 13:43             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-08-11  8:40               ` Allen Li
2020-08-11 11:19                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-12  7:31                   ` Allen Li
2021-07-22 14:15               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 12:48                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 18:23                   ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-24 11:54                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-26 23:09                       ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-27 20:56                         ` Juri Linkov

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