From: "Paweł Kraśnicki" <paul.krasnicki@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 46476@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46476: Feature request: Right-aligning part of the modeline
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:45:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPZgK76fK9xBLv+v-Hsf0cKGUyVODaDgf4zhyma0YTnpFEkNmQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a6s7dhv0.fsf@gnu.org>
> If people use :align-to, then what would be the advantage of providing
> %-constructs to produce the same?
Well, the only advantage is that people wouldn't need to install an external
package or write a short but advanced piece of Lisp. I think that right
alignment is such a commonly used feature that it would be good to have it
accessible very easily. (Center alignment and segments are less popular.)
I actually got the idea for using %= in particular from Vim, which has right
alignment under this %-construct.
> That'd require two passes to generate the mode-line display, right?
I think so. Emacs would have to first expand the modeline constructs in the
segments separately into some internal data structure, then decide which ones to
actually display.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-13 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 22:59 bug#46476: Feature request: Right-aligning part of the modeline Paweł Kraśnicki
2021-02-13 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 16:30 ` Paweł Kraśnicki
2021-02-13 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 17:45 ` Paweł Kraśnicki [this message]
2021-02-13 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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