From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
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: Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170517211552.2a4dab7e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-9h2OTVp_sO86U4n4JZC2U_iftHaEj63WsLKOQxhdKwDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 15 May 2017 20:38:38 -0400 Noam Postavsky
<npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> >
> > Numerically, "%p" is 100 * a / (a + W + b).
> >
> > "%o" is 100 * a / (a + b).
>
> Yeah, that makes much more sense, a percentage should range from %0
> to %100, and %p's formula doesn't. I think I've dealt with this
> mostly by ignoring the number and looking at the scrollbar instead.
> With this patch, I might actually be able to rely on the number.
>
I'd like to make two suggestions:
1) I don't see a good reason this shouldn't just be what %p does
(that is, instead of adding %o, perhaps %p should be altered, since
this is more sensible.)
2) If %p is not changed, a knob should be made available to allow
users to invoke the %o in place of %p without having to edit the
modeline specification themselves, which is currently quite messy.
Perry
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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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 [this message]
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
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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