Both Aquamacs and Emacs The latest version have started flickering quite a bit on opening any latex document with color or tables or formatting  
 

 
 

 
 
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> On Aug 24, 2017 at 12:26 PM,  <John Yates (mailto:john@yates-sheets.org)>  wrote:
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>  On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:  >   >  Looks good, although there's a fundamental problem with putting on the  >  mode line an indicator that must use a significant part of the screen  >  estate to be useful: the mode line is pretty crowded these days, even  >  in the default configuration. After a futile effort at IBM to obtain an FSF copyright assignment I have given up and been too lazy to restart the effort with my new employer. Hence my .emacs (https://github.com/jsyjr/MyConfiguration.git ) is in the public domain. A couple months back I posted a mode-line widget that I have been using for some number of years. The relevant code is appended at the end of this message. Notable behavior: * Overlays proportional view of window in buffer onto line/column widget 
 * Supports the same mouse menu behavior as the original widget * Highlights left edge square bracket if BOB is visible * Highlights right edge square bracket if EOB is visible * Hysteresis to minimi
ze mode-line jitter This solution does not use any more mode-line real estate than the current line/column widget. . . .  >  I wonder whether it would have made sense to reuse the code we have  >  for computing the scroll-bar thumb. I am an inexperienced elisp hacker so I doubt that there is anything particularly useful or novel in my code. As the comments mention I was much inspired by past email discussions. The hardest part I found was the logic corresponding to Eli's scroll-bar thumb logic. I would love it if emacs offered essentially this functionality OOTB. /john ;;{{{ mode-line position-widget ;; Use a fancy widget to display buffer position on the mode line. ;; ------------------------------------------------------------------- ;; ;; Initial inspiration from an email thread between
  David Engster's and ;; Drew Adams: ;; ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00523.html ;; http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/122038 ;; ;; Further learnings from Lenn
art Borgman's sml-modeline.el ;; https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/sml-modeline.el ;; ;; TODO: Change color if cursor exceeds limit column (defvar buffer-max-column-visited 1 "Accumulate max column visited to prevent mode-line jitter.") (make-variable-buffer-local 'buffer-max-column-visited) (defun my/position-widget () (let* ((c-n-m column-number-mode) (l-n-m line-number-mode) (wbeg (window-start)) (wend (window-end))) (save-restriction (widen) (let* ((eob-line (line-number-at-pos (point-max))) (wbeg-line (line-number-at-pos wbeg)) (wend-line (line-number-at-pos wend)) (widget (concat ;; Leading [ (if (= wbeg-line 1) #("[" 0 1 (face mode-line-highlight-bold)) "[") ;; Body (if (not (or l-n-m c-n-m)) (replace-regexp-in-string "%" "%%" (format-mode-line '(-3 "%P"))) (let* ((wlines (1+ (- wend-
 line wbeg-line))) (expanded (format-mode-line (concat   (cond ((not l-n-m) "") ((>  10 eob-line) "%1l") ((>  100 eob-line) "%2l") ((>  1000 eob-line) "%3l") ((>  10000 eob-line) "%4l") ((>  100000 e
ob-line) "%5l") ((>  1000000 eob-line) "%6l") (t "%7l")) (if (and l-n-m c-n-m) #("," 0 1 (face bold)) "") (cond ((not c-n-m) "") (t (let* ((max-col (max (current-column) buffer-max-column-visited)) (field (cond ((>  10 max-col) 3) ((>  100 max-col) 4) ((>  1000 max-col) 5) (t 6))) (cur-col (current-column)) (digits (cond ((>  10 cur-col) 1) ((>  100 cur-col) 2) ((>  1000 cur-col) 3) (t 4)))) (setq buffer-max-column-visited max-col) (substring "%c " 0 (- field digits)))))))) (len (length expanded)) (hilen (max 1 ; at least one column (min len ; no more than full string (round (/ (* wlines len) (float eob-line)))))) (lpad (round (/ (* wbeg-line (- len hilen)) (float (- eob-line wlines -2))))) (rpad (+ lpad hilen))) (put-text-property lpad rpad 'face 'mode-line-highlight expanded) expanded)) 
 ;; Trailing ] (if (= wend-line eob-line) #("]" 0 1 (face mode-line-highlight-bold)) "]")))) (propertize widget 'help-echo "Buffer position widget\nmouse-1: Line and Column Mode Menu" 'mouse-face 'mo
de-line-highlight 'local-map '(keymap (mode-line keymap (down-mouse-1 keymap (line-number-mode menu-item "Global Line Number Mode" line-number-mode :help "Toggle line number display" :button (:toggle . line-number-mode)) (column-number-mode menu-item "Global Column Number Mode" column-number-mode :help "Toggle column number display" :button (:toggle . column-number-mode)) "Control Line and Column Display Globally")))))))) (my/custom-set-variables '(mode-line-position '(:eval (my/position-widget)) t) ) ;;}}} 
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