From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@gojira.at>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: RE: master 5ec2115: Use '…' for ellipsis in truncate-string-to-width by default (bug#41250)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 09:04:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a283b344-3c2f-4180-ab9a-fb72c323f88d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzh4ztkxh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > That "…" char is pretty useless, in general.
> > Its appearance has nothing in common with that
> > of a real ellipsis, at least when a fixed-width
> > font is used.
>
> FWIW, I've been using "…" for that ellipsis for a long time now, and
> I use a fixed-width font (misc-fixed-semicondensed) pretty
> much everywhere. So obviously my opinion disagrees with yours.
>
> I did end up using "……" at a few places (mostly for the
> outline-minor-mode ellipses), tho, because while I find "..." too long,
> "…" ended up a bit too short for my taste in that case.
>
> For `truncate-string-to-width` (which is also used to truncate elements
> which are significantly shorter than a line's width (contrary to the
> outline-minor-mode ellipses) typically in multi-column tabular data),
> I found the extra 2 chars very welcome.
OK.
There's an argument for users to be able to customize
the string, beyond just the overall length/width.
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[not found] ` <20201004194200.7B7A420A23@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-10-06 6:07 ` master 5ec2115: Use '…' for ellipsis in truncate-string-to-width by default (bug#41250) Herbert J. Skuhra
2020-10-06 7:58 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-06 8:42 ` Herbert J. Skuhra
2020-10-06 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-06 15:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-06 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-06 16:04 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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