From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: 58804@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58804: Inconsistency between ruler-mode, fill-column and whitespace-mode
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:34:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a65hn5a8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Fo67b0hKd3jju8GD5SXivgchuhIMLnZ288IzfHAFdqoAVC7D_wOlA6jDVBAcOu5NKCISjKvC5cdy9chj--Iyy4Zx45hYBzKFuImSjatCfVU=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:15:23 +0000)
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:15:23 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: 58804@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > but it should be at column 71 because column numbers start from 0.
> >
> >
> > I don't follow: ruler-mode counts columns starting from zero, as
> > everything in Emacs. If you move point to a column other than the
> > leftmost one, you will see "0" at the left edge of the ruler display.
> > So having the marker at column 72 is exactly right.
>
> When one is using a box cursor, it is very confusing. If one has
> whitespace-style with 'lines-char, the column with the Right Ruler Marker
> gets highlighted.
So I guess this is a bug in whitespace-mode? Its doc string says:
lines-char lines which have columns beyond
‘whitespace-line-column’ are highlighted via
putting a face on the first character that goes
beyond the ‘whitespace-line-column’ column.
So highlighting the character whose column is whitespace-line-column,
not whitespace-line-column+1, seems to be a bug?
> When users have a box cursor, it is convenient that
> the Right Ruler Marker is placed on the last column where it is acceptable
> to introduce a last character without exceeding line-column.
That's what happens now (and box cursor is the default cursor style).
The problem seems to be in whitespace-mode, not in ruler-mode.
> > It sounds like you want column numbers that start from 1, not zero?
> > That should be a session-wide mode (if we want such an enhancement),
> > since otherwise there could be confusion. We currently support
> > one-based column only in the mode-line display under
> > column-number-mode. Maybe you have turned that on, which is why you
> > think there's a mismatch in ruler-mode?
>
> Yes, to start from 1, not zero - when one uses a "box cursor".
I don't think I understand the relevance of the cursor-type to this
issue.
> And yes, I have both ruler-mode, whitespace-mode, and
> column-number-mode, all three enabled. I would appreciate if I
> could make the necessary customisations for all three to match.
That would need some new minor mode or user option, I guess, and
suitable changes in several places to follow the optional behavior.
Patches welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-27 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-26 20:22 bug#58804: Inconsistency between ruler-mode, fill-column and whitespace-mode Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-27 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 6:15 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-27 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-27 7:10 ` Heime via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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=83a65hn5a8.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=58804@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=heimeborgia@protonmail.com \
/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.