From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: 36861@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#36861: 27.0.50; display-fill-column-indicator-mode in log-edit-mode
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 21:26:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rxycfqp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806175146.fpgzslvlaydpih7k@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Tue, 6 Aug 2019 19:51:46 +0200)
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 19:51:46 +0200
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: juri@linkov.net, 36861@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >I don't think I understand the problem. Why doesn't just setting the
> >characters and the mode variable work as expected? AFAIU, one needs
> >to call the mode function only if one wants Emacs to deduce the
> >indicator character automatically.
>
> Hi:
>
> It should work as you say. But the default value for
> display-fill-column-indicator-character is nil until the mode function
> is executed (at least once).
>
> I think that what they want is display-fill-column-indicator-character
> to be non-nil without initialization; which we cannot set without some
> checks.
Why can't we set display-fill-column-indicator-character to ?| by
default? Invoking the mode function will still do its job, but at
least people who want to just set the variable will have a functional
feature. Am I missing something?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 20:44 bug#36861: 27.0.50; display-fill-column-indicator-mode in log-edit-mode Juri Linkov
2019-07-30 21:21 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-31 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-31 20:49 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-02 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-03 22:31 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-04 0:51 ` Ergus
2019-08-04 19:39 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-04 20:30 ` Ergus
2019-08-06 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-06 17:51 ` Ergus
2019-08-06 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-06 19:25 ` Ergus
2019-08-07 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-09 19:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-05 21:43 ` Juri Linkov
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