From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffers menu question
Date: 27 Apr 2002 09:00:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y9faxb7e.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5137-Fri26Apr2002193932+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > I agree, but it's not really possible to align them properly in a
> > variable-width font.
>
> Even though they will be the first characters on a line?
Yes.
Think about it: your attempt to make a constant width field will
involve something like the characters `*', `%', and SPC, all of which
are different widths -- and you don't even know the widths (not that
would do you much good if you did).
For an example, try out `msb-mode'. It rearranges the Buffers menu,
puts the buffer status on the left side like you suggest. It apparently
tries to line everything up, and the result is quite crappy looking.
-Miles
--
A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and
said, "Make me one with everything."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-27 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-23 14:42 Buffers menu question Miles Bader
2002-04-24 17:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-25 4:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-26 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-26 12:33 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-26 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-27 0:00 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-04-28 21:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-28 22:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-29 18:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-30 1:22 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-30 5:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-30 5:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-30 21:19 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-27 0:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-04-27 3:15 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-27 22:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-28 1:48 ` Miles Bader
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