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.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent 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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