From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tick Reduction
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 22:07:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czmtqnl7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnl1jnfa.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:53:13 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:53:13 +0100
>
> > -\**- *mail* Bot L30 (Mail Fly/en Abbrev Fill) 9:41PM 0.08 [100%]
> >
> > So the "-\**" part, the Top/nn%/Bot part, the L30 part, the 9:41PM
> > part, the 0.08 part, and the [100%] part will have to use the fixed
> > advance width?
>
> No, the last three parts change widths today?
They are numbers, so they can change the width because different
digits have different width.
> (The digits are, as I said, not an issue -- it's just exchanging
> digits with other characters, like spaces.)
I'm not sure this assumption is always true. I've seen fonts where
"1" is much narrower than other digits. And the [100%] part is
produced in my case with the [%b%p%%] format, so it can change the
width, AFAIU.
> > Btw, I still don't think I understand why aligning each field to a
> > certain pixel value would not look better (and be easier to
> > implement).
>
> I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you explain and give an
> example?
I've shown different fields for the mode line below:
-\**- *mail* Bot L30 (Mail Fly/en Abbrev Fill) 9:41PM 0.08 [100%]
+++++ +----------+ +-+ +-+ +-----------------------+ +----+ +--+ +----+
A single + means a field of 1 character cell; a +---+ means a field
that starts and ends at the +. The idea is that each field always
starts at a predefined pixel offset from the beginning of the mode
line. The each field can change its width, but it will not affect the
following fields.
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Thread overview: 167+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-18 20:37 Tick Reduction Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-18 21:01 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-11-19 5:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-18 21:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-11-19 5:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 6:31 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2021-11-19 6:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 7:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 8:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-20 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 17:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 18:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 18:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 18:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 19:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 19:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 19:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-21 20:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 20:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 20:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 8:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-22 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-22 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-23 10:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-23 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 13:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-23 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-23 14:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-23 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 11:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 16:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 17:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 17:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 18:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25 13:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 12:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 12:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-26 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 18:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-24 22:32 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-25 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 17:03 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 18:54 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-26 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25 13:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25 14:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25 14:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 12:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-26 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 14:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 13:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 15:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 23:10 ` Feng Shu
2021-11-25 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-25 11:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 23:26 ` chad
2021-11-21 20:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 20:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 20:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 21:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-22 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-22 14:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 8:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 8:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 10:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 10:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 13:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 10:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-20 8:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-20 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20 9:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-20 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-20 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 8:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 9:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 13:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-21 19:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 13:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-21 15:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 19:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-21 19:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22 14:57 ` Use variable-pitch face in more places Stefan Kangas
2021-11-22 15:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-22 17:22 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-22 18:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-22 18:40 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-23 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 9:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-24 16:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-11-19 7:48 ` Tick Reduction Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 11:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-11-18 22:18 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-11-21 10:17 ` Phil Sainty
2021-11-19 5:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 7:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 6:42 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-11-19 7:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 6:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 7:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 7:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 8:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 8:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-19 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-19 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-19 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-19 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-20 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-20 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-20 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-20 9:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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