From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer".
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 23:35:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_m4dkTifBdBu-0C0H5Gx17Oq3B5dWVa8Q0AWfy_cQ2zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337c57bgj.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Numerically, "%p" is 100 * a / (a + W + b).
>>
>> "%o" is 100 * a / (a + b).
>
> Isn't it better to display 100 * (a + W/2) / (a + W + b) instead?
I don't think so, this formula also never reaches 100%.
> This shows the portion of buffer before the window-center. It will
> show 50% in the first use case and 73% in the second.
Jumping from 73% to "Bot" is less wrong than jumping from 50%, but 98%
being the last number before "Bot" makes more sense to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-16 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-15 20:44 Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer" Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-15 23:27 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-15 23:29 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-15 23:54 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-16 0:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-05-16 1:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-05-16 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-18 1:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-18 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-18 16:01 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-18 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-18 16:45 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-18 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-18 20:13 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-18 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-18 20:51 ` Perry E. Metzger
2017-05-19 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-22 2:22 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-22 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-22 13:38 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-22 18:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-22 18:55 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-16 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-16 3:35 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2017-05-16 20:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-17 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-17 21:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-18 19:16 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-05-18 21:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-19 5:32 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-16 7:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-05-16 10:05 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-05-16 13:31 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-16 18:59 ` Toon Claes
2017-05-16 20:56 ` John Yates
2017-05-20 10:34 ` Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer". [Patch] Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-21 15:55 ` Difficulty applying multi-file patches from within emacs (Was: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o ..) Kaushal Modi
2017-05-21 16:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-05-22 1:19 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-22 2:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-05-21 16:08 ` Difficulty applying multi-file patches from within emacs Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-21 17:20 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-21 17:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-22 1:21 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-22 1:23 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-23 11:21 ` Difficulty applying multi-file patches from within emacs (Was: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o ..) Tino Calancha
2017-05-23 8:00 ` Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer". [Patch] Dani Moncayo
2017-05-23 20:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-24 10:45 ` Dani Moncayo
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