From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer".
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 21:22:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170518212251.GA6248@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8Pv0hPycJr+VkNGO+AH7iwVg42a5RkpDL58v3f_MWC9t+ESw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello, Dani.
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 21:16:06 +0200, Dani Moncayo wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> > Hello, Eli and Dani.
> Hi Alan, thanks for working on this.
> > For %q, I haven't included the parentheses Dani suggested, and it's a
> > bit DWIMy, with things like "All", "Top-5%", "63%-Bot", "15-25%".
> > Just to save you some work, I found the following useful for trying them
> > out, by setting the pertinent part of the standard mode-line format.
> > (i) (For %O): (aset (cadr (car mode-line-position)) 1 ?O)
> > (ii) (For %q): (aset (cadr (car mode-line-position)) 1 ?q)
> > and (setcar (car mode-line-position) -7)
> > Thoughts?
> Wrt %q, I find the format to be too irregular.
OK.
> I'd prefer to stick to "N-M%" (with no whitespace around the hyphen),
> ....
Er, the WS was unintentional. Sorry! I can do a bit of other tidying
up on that code, too.
> .... even when N is 0 or M is 100. The only exception to that format
> would be when N=0 _and_ M=100, in which case I'd prefer "All" rather
> than "0-100%".
Presumably truncating the number to 99%, except when the window is right
at the bottom of the buffer. The rounding up to 1% is already done by
the SW.
> Also, I'd like the whole text related to %q to take a
> constant amount of space in the modeline, to avoid shifting any text
> to the right side of %q.
I'm not sure that's the Right Thing. This would take up 7 characters +
at least one space (compared with the current 3 characters + at least
one space for "%p") for "99-100%". That's an awful lot of mode-line
space. I would be tempted to scale it back to 6 characters (for
"54-59%") which is the "usual" maximum width, and take the hit when we
reach "99-100%", by expanding to 7 characters then.
So, the range of formats we'd deal with would be:
"All "
"0-5% "
"4-11% "
"31-38%"
"99-99%"
"99-100%"
, the last one happening only when EOB is visible in the window. This
doesn't take up any more space than my proposed "99%-Bot", which is also
7 characters.
Somehow I think even "100-100%" might be possible, if the window were at
EOB, and the buffer were narrowed to zero characters (if that is
possible - I'm not sure it is). Or, maybe that would be handled by "All
".
I haven't had time to make any changes this evening - I've been working
on the code to select the "percentage offset" formula by a customisable
variable. Maybe we can finalise this change by the weekend.
> Thanks.
> --
> Dani Moncayo
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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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
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 [this message]
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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