From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 13473@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#13473: 24.3.50; Display Tables doc bug
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:06:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zi4bwinq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inazk869.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:33:18 +0100)
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:33:18 +0100
> Cc: 13473@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:18:41 -0500 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
> >
> >> The glyph used to draw the border between side-by-side windows (the
> >> default is @samp{|}). @xref{Splitting Windows}. This takes effect only
> >> when there are no scroll bars; if scroll bars are supported and in use,
> >> ! a scroll bar separates the two windows. On graphical terminals, Emacs
> >> ! uses a thin line to indicate the border, so the display table has no
> >> ! effect.
> >> @end table
> >
> > If it's only effective on a tty display, then is the scroll bar
> > reference irrelevant? AFAIK, there are never scroll bars on a tty
> > display anyway.
>
> I think that's right, so the above is misleading (with or without the
> change).
Careful here: the same could be said about the truncation and
continuation glyphs (and in fact, the manual actually did say that),
but it's incorrect, because those glyphs _are_ used on GUI frames when
the user disables the fringes.
So any such "irrelevancy" must be qualified by "currently" etc.,
because no one prevents us from implementing a feature whereby they
will be used.
I will soon install the following:
@item 5
The glyph used to draw the border between side-by-side windows (the
default is @samp{|}). @xref{Splitting Windows}. This currently has
effect only on text terminals; on graphical terminals, if vertical
scroll bars are supported and in use, a scroll bar separates the two
windows, and if there are no vertical scroll bars and no dividers
(@pxref{Windows Dividers}), Emacs uses a thin line to indicate the
border.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 11:10 bug#13473: 24.3.50; Display Tables doc bug Stephen Berman
2018-02-14 1:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-14 13:33 ` Stephen Berman
2018-02-14 16:05 ` martin rudalics
2018-02-14 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-14 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-02-14 18:33 ` Stephen Berman
2019-10-11 2:08 ` Stefan Kangas
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