From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 16856@debbugs.gnu.org, Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#16856: 24.3.50; Cursor leaves garbage in fringe (and a request: width of fringes + scroll bar should be full characters)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 19:30:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m237pg7d14.fsf@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530B24BD.7030700@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:53:49 +0100")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>> Another argument of not having a "odd" width is that when splitting windows
>> side-by-side, you will end up with an unused gap to the right of almost a
>> full character. Steps to repeat:
>>
>> emacs -Q
>> (setq truncate-partial-width-windows nil) C-j
>> C-x 3
>>
>> Here, the right window have an unused space between the rightmost
>> character and the fringe, the space is almost a character wide. It's not
>> possible to resize the frame manually to correct this, as the frame can
>> only be resized full characters (as it should be). (When
>> `truncate-partial-width-windows' is t, the gap is used to display a partial
>> character.)
>>
>> To conclude, I would be much happier if the sum of the fringes and the
>> scroll bar would be an even five characters rather than five characters and
>> one pixel, as it is today.
>>
>> The question is if this is due to some display bug (maybe OS X specific) or
>> if this is the way it is supposed to work now?
>
> This used to happen with Emacs 24.3 here and should be gone now. But OS
> X still has the old extended fringes code in place - maybe that
> interferes. Could you try to remove it - I can't compile for OS X so I
> won't do that. If you want to know how, have a look at these changes:
I believe this behaviour is no longer present in Emacs 25.
I don't think there's anything else in this bug report that needs
addressed, and as such, I'll close it in a couple of weeks if nobody
objects.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-17 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-23 21:39 bug#16856: 24.3.50; Cursor leaves garbage in fringe (and a request: width of fringes + scroll bar should be full characters) Anders Lindgren
2014-02-24 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-24 7:41 ` martin rudalics
2014-02-24 10:12 ` Anders Lindgren
2014-02-24 10:53 ` martin rudalics
2014-02-24 15:12 ` Anders Lindgren
2014-02-26 10:15 ` martin rudalics
2014-02-26 12:51 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-05-17 18:30 ` Alan Third [this message]
2016-05-17 19:06 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-05-17 21:14 ` bug#16856: [PATCH] Prevent cursor from over-drawing the fringe Alan Third
2016-05-20 19:33 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-05-21 7:35 ` Alan Third
2016-05-21 19:07 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-07-17 6:57 ` bug#16856: 24.3.50; Cursor leaves garbage in fringe David Reitter
2017-11-09 18:50 ` bug#16856: Enable fringe cursor when *almost* exact_window_width_line_p Keith David Bershatsky
2017-11-09 18:58 ` bug#29233: " Keith David Bershatsky
2017-11-09 22:11 ` Alan Third
2017-11-10 7:53 ` bug#16856: " Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 16:34 ` Anders Lindgren
2017-11-11 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 17:49 ` Anders Lindgren
2017-11-11 18:46 ` Alan Third
2017-11-11 20:36 ` Anders Lindgren
2017-11-10 0:31 ` bug#29233: " Keith David Bershatsky
2017-11-11 22:33 ` Keith David Bershatsky
2017-11-12 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-12 23:24 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-09 19:00 ` bug#16856: Cursor leaves garbage in fringe Keith David Bershatsky
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