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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 6000@debbugs.gnu.org, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#6000: describe-text-sexp does not know window-width
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:49:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v96uyn6n.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <148710df-bd9c-0ddb-f00b-a2e429d600dd@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:18:35 +0200")

martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> and M-x foo in some window.  Dependent on the width of that window,
> `describe-text-sexp' will decide whether to insert the expression in
> *foo* or display a "Show" button instead.  When you eventually display
> *foo* you will see the result.  I think a simple check like
>
>     (if (and (not (string-match-p "\n" pp))
>              (eq (window-buffer) (current-buffer))
>              (<= (length pp) (- (window-width) (current-column))))
> 	(insert pp)
>
> should work.

Hm...  this will always insert the [Show] button if the *foo* buffer
isn't the current buffer?  Is that what we want here?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-04  9:49 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
2021-06-03 20:25     ` Juri Linkov
2021-06-04  9:18       ` martin rudalics
2021-06-04  9:49         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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