From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 17303@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17303: On tty or -nw, (window-body-width) is one column too big.
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:39:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140420203904.GA3580@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ha5neqv7.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi, Eli.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:35:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:03:43 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > I'm doing something at the moment involving scrolling of windows, and I
> > need to know at what "visual" column point is in. So, naturally, I do
> > (% (current-column) (window-body-width))
> > . At the start of the first continuation line, this formula (correctly)
> > returns 0 on a GUI, but (e.g.) 79 on a tty or in emacs -nw.
> You mean, it says 80 in a GUI session, not 0, right?
Er, no. It says 0 in a GUI session. In the GUI, (window-body-width) is
the number of characters which fit on the line. In a tty,
(window-body-width) is ONE MORE than that number.
> > This is caused by emacs counting the "\" character in the right margin as
> > part of the body-width.
> No, it's because the last character in the continued like is in column
> 78 on a TTY, but in column 79 in a GUI session. Emacs counts columns
> in continuation lines starting from the last column in the previous
> line, as you'd expect. IOW, the continued line is treated as one long
> line, and all its columns counted contiguously.
Yes, this is true, but it's (window-body-width) which is inconsistent
between GUI and tty.
> It is true that the "\" character on a TTY takes up one column, and
> thus leaves only 79 columns for text, but what else can Emacs do?
Tell me that (window-body-width) is 79, not 80.
> > This seems like a bad idea. I think it's also a bug.
> What would you like Emacs to do instead, given what I just explained?
See above.
> > So, is there a better method of determining the "visual" column point is
> > in?
> current-column is it. Please tell why it doesn't fit your needs.
current-column provides the "logical" column (e.g. 79). I need the
"visual" column (e.g. 0).
I'm working on getting follow-mode's scrolling working properly. I have
a situation where:
o - point is at Col 79, this being at the start of a continuation line.
o - this position is one line below the bottom of the window
o - (but hasn't been redisplayed yet).
o - set-window-start has NOT been called with a nil NOFORCE parameter.
If I were to allow the redisplay without further action, redisplay would
scroll the window back upwards to ensure point is displayed. This would
negate the purpose of the scrolling. I want to move point back into the
window before the redisplay. So I attempt the following:
o - (setq dest-col (Determine-the-visual-column-point-is-in))
o - (vertical-motion -1)
o - (move-to-column dest-col)
However this last action becomes, on a tty, (move-to-column 79) putting
point back where it started. :-(
It is (Determine-the-visual-column-..) which gives me trouble. On a GUI,
I can use
(% (current-column) (window-body-width))
, but this fails on a tty, as noted above.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-20 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-20 17:03 bug#17303: On tty or -nw, (window-body-width) is one column too big Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-20 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 20:39 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2014-04-21 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-21 15:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-04-21 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <handler.17303.B.13980136924874.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2014-04-21 15:29 ` bug#17303: Acknowledgement (On tty or -nw, (window-body-width) is one column too big.) Alan Mackenzie
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