From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tick Reduction Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83o863ujvb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bl2hyzca.fsf@gnus.org> <874k81vmlf.fsf@gnus.org> <83sfvl8wjw.fsf@gnu.org> <87o869y0v2.fsf@gnus.org> <83fsrl8owz.fsf@gnu.org> <87o869wkcx.fsf@gnus.org> <83bl298n9b.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmqpv1jm.fsf@gnus.org> <834k818jwm.fsf@gnu.org> <874k80fkpm.fsf@gnus.org> <83bl285o6b.fsf@gnu.org> <87o868cor3.fsf@gnus.org> <835ysg5no7.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0gwcoce.fsf@gnus.org> <8335nk5lag.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1b39kza.fsf@gnus.org> <83fsrj2hyt.fsf@gnu.org> <87y259r8fa.fsf@gnus.org> <83v90dy7mb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k7v2i7p.fsf@gnus.org> <83wnkrukz0.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee6z12pn.fsf@gnus.org> <83r1azukd4.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3485"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: larsi@gnus.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 29 15:26:59 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhcQ-0000eE-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:26:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50112 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhcP-0002pP-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:26:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhSm-0005Bx-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:17:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=44336 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhSm-0008Mk-Cq; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:17:00 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=V9yWVKcg74d510iCm/tChKtpKv+juQDqO42WH7zLy7o=; b=KXcZ1NEV0EBq z4tEKsmooJ19wIai6BZsjRixhCP1E2mAuoAbQhXkgDxekiCfWuHjHcbL+kd62saHrx7G1PosQ7CGT 07Y1vQAK51KyKOnDoSRVEEf7q/v51WJuHP1+zFDzw/uX3zdNvZJ5PgxrNRJVyUfQcU01UFXQ6hxn0 ZjIfVdCiPHxKxOk6hZGGrIRRzWoHrHZBYBVJjhD7PSAo6DMT4m8eWmDiQ1RZnpjlbCa86HypcBAwV 1MYT8Mrmi5t5wpyupa+cDCBEpIkRsxNhhAxx/Nbsp5uxIQsiXaPs+wQMzl8DOknBkY9VC0Jytx1fb Ml346/ZWaIQ5hsEdDX5OlA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3356 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mrhSm-0006ar-4c; Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:17:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83r1azukd4.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:06:31 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280483 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:06:31 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru > > That hack will need to stay, because we cannot unsupport the old > mode-line code. It just won't be used with the new mode-line faces. There's one other alternative: extend display_string to accept FIELD_WIDTH in pixel units (or add another argument to that effect). This could be set by examining the 'display' property before calling display_string. The disadvantage is that only the min-width spec could be supported this way for mode-line constructs that are produced from C strings.