From: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
To: 25308@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25308: Shorten long "ui-lines" in Custom buffers
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:26:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg0o2psh.fsf@bernoul.li> (raw)
Custom buffers contain two long lines, the first separating the initial
buttons from the options shown below, and the second is for symmetry, I
suppose. This is implemented in `custom-group-value-create'.
These lines are 999 characters long. When point ends up on the "line
line", then it ends up at the *end* of that line, scrolling all content
except for the line itself off-window. This happens both with C-n/C-p,
as well as when using the mouse scroll wheel.
This is very distracting and I would suggest that these lines be removed
completely. If that is not an option, then I would suggest to make the
lines short enough for them to almost always end before the window edge.
80 characters instead of 999 would do, I think.
If that is considered to be too ugly, then I would suggest setting the
`:align-to' to be just long enough to reach the edge of the window (but
never longer) at the time `custom-group-value-create' is called, using
something like:
(list 'space :align-to
`(+ (0 . right)
,(min (window-hscroll)
(- (line-end-position)
(line-beginning-position)))))
Thanks for considering these options.
next reply other threads:[~2016-12-31 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-31 13:26 Jonas Bernoulli [this message]
2016-12-31 13:57 ` bug#25308: Shorten long "ui-lines" in Custom buffers Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 17:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-03 13:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-03 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-03 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-03 16:48 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <handler.25308.C.15727997177484.notifdonectrl.0@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-11-04 13:21 ` bug#25308: acknowledged by developer (Re: bug#25308: Shorten long "ui-lines" in Custom buffers) Jonas Bernoulli
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