From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer". Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20170517211552.2a4dab7e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20170515204416.GA7349@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495070166 17910 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2017 01:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 01:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Emacs developers To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 18 03:15:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dBA2m-0004Un-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 03:15:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51333 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBA2r-0007nT-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2017 21:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBA2m-0007nM-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBA2k-0007rQ-MW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:40333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBA2k-0007rM-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24098273; Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C962DE040; Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214934 Archived-At: On Mon, 15 May 2017 20:38:38 -0400 Noam Postavsky wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > Numerically, "%p" is 100 * a / (a + W + b). > > > > "%o" is 100 * a / (a + b). > > Yeah, that makes much more sense, a percentage should range from %0 > to %100, and %p's formula doesn't. I think I've dealt with this > mostly by ignoring the number and looking at the scrollbar instead. > With this patch, I might actually be able to rely on the number. > I'd like to make two suggestions: 1) I don't see a good reason this shouldn't just be what %p does (that is, instead of adding %o, perhaps %p should be altered, since this is more sensible.) 2) If %p is not changed, a knob should be made available to allow users to invoke the %o in place of %p without having to edit the modeline specification themselves, which is currently quite messy. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com