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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 44068@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44068: 28.0.50; Faulty uses of tabulated-list-format
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:12:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2k2yqqb.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831rhuoy36.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:43:57 +0300")

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:43:57 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: 44068@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:20:16 +0200
>> 
>> > Instead of manually fine-tuning each column's width, wouldn't it be
>> > better to use the string-trim capabilities that replace excess
>> > characters with an ellipsis?
>> 
>> I'm not sure I understand your suggestion.  If you mean to truncate the
>> column label in the header line when displaying the sort indicator,
>> e.g. change "Status" to "Sta… ▼", I'm dubious it's worth the effort,
>> since most of the problematic cases in the Emacs sources are with the
>> final column, where there's always enough space, but due to the
>> misleading description in tabulated-list-format's doc string, many modes
>> have made it unnecessarily narrow, preventing the display of the sort
>> indicator.  So to avoid the final column being labelled e.g. either
>> "File" or "Fi… ▼" instead of "File ▼", it is necessary to change the
>> width manually anyway.  In other words, the truncation proposal would be
>> an addition to manual fine-tuning (for non-final columns), not a
>> substitute for it.  Or did you mean something else?
>
> Yes, I meant it as an addition, which will make this issue much more
> future proof.  Documentation update is definitely fine (and should
> probably go to emacs-27, not to master, right?), and adjusting the
> column widths to eliminate the ellipsis is also okay.  I just don't
> want us to end with these two and nothing else.

Ok.  I can try, but anyone should feel free to beat me to it.

Steve Berman





  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-19 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-18 20:00 bug#44068: 28.0.50; Faulty uses of tabulated-list-format Stephen Berman
2020-10-18 21:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-18 22:01   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-18 22:15     ` Drew Adams
2020-10-18 22:18     ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-18 22:01 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-18 22:17   ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-18 22:35     ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-18 23:13       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-19  9:04         ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-19 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 18:20   ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-19 18:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 19:12       ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2020-10-20 16:09         ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-29 16:58           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-29 22:48             ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-30  1:06               ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-30 21:44                 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-30 23:51                   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-01 23:07                     ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-02 17:12                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-02 22:37                         ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-03  3:27                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-03 23:12                             ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-04 15:09                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-04 22:55                                 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-04 12:02                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-04 22:53                         ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-12 16:38                           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-12 22:51                             ` Stephen Berman

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