From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 47cbd10: * lisp/bindings.el (mode-line-position): Improve tooltip.
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 11:34:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831r4uy4ub.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmyc7jG8rWdTq95=4N7Gf5EVemUgDvAtz+CdURo+QK_gQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 9 Oct 2021 10:28:01 +0200)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 10:28:01 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> In the doc string for mode-line-format we have:
>
> %p -- print percent of buffer above top of window, or Top, Bot or All.
> %P -- print percent of buffer above bottom of window, perhaps plus Top,
> or print Bottom or All.
>
> I could not find any other documentation of this feature. Did I miss something?
>
> I guess "Percent of buffer above top of window, or Top, Bot or All" is
> pretty hopeless as far as a user-facing description goes. In
> particular, it doesn't say what any of it means.
>
> Based on the documentation I could find, I can only suggest "Buffer
> Percentage Position" or, if you prefer, "Buffer Percentage POS", the
> latter of which exactly matches the description of this in the info
> node "(emacs) Optional Mode Line". But I'm not sure that this is
> better than "Buffer Position".
How about "Buffer text percentage"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-09 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-09 7:58 emacs-28 47cbd10: * lisp/bindings.el (mode-line-position): Improve tooltip Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 8:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-09 8:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-09 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-09 8:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-09 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 9:54 ` Omar Polo
2021-10-13 3:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-13 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-13 12:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-13 12:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-13 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-13 22:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-13 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 11:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-10 0:09 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=831r4uy4ub.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=stefan@marxist.se \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.