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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, 44068@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44068: 28.0.50; Faulty uses of tabulated-list-format
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 14:33:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d13f9c2-f8dc-4f61-be5f-d60d485719bc@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imb7e242.fsf@gmx.net>

> On trying out the new tabulated-list implementation of the bookmarks
> list I noticed that, when clicking on the File header, the sort
> indicator is not displayed, unlike with the Bookmark header.  Then I
> noticed that the same thing happens in the tabulated buffer list (C-x
> C-b).  Then I grepped for all uses of tabulated-list-format in the Emacs
> sources and found the same problem in most of them.  The reason is that
> in these modes the width of at least one of the columns is too narrow,
> so that tabulated-list-init-header omits the indicator.  In most cases
> the problematic column is the final one, but in a couple of cases there
> are also non-final too narrow columns.  And I think these bugs are due
> to a misleading description in tabulated-list-format's doc string.  The
> attached patch corrects the doc string and the problematic uses of
> tabulated-list-format.  The patch also fixes a typo and tries to improve
> column alignment in timer-list-mode: this is one of the few modes
> derived from tabulated-list-mode whose column widths didn't need to be
> corrected, but the alignment seemed suboptimal; however, when the header
> line uses a variable-pitch face, the alignment is still suboptimal even
> with the patch, and I don't know how to fix that.

This rings a bell (maybe).  I think the sort-indicator
problem might be a duplicate bug report, but I can't
find the dup now.  There are some inherent problems
with the rightmost column, IIRC, that being one of them.

(Dunno whether this helps at all.  Probably not.)





  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-18 21:33 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 [this message]
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
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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