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.)
next prev parent 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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