From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>,
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com,
1355@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1355: suggestion on the modeline
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:47:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr659u249.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081117232648.GA9335@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:26:48 +0000")
> , the percentage currently displayed is a / (a + W + b). So, although in
> the picture, the window is showing the middle of the buffer, the
> percentage displayed is 22%, rather than 50%. This is particularly
> jarring when scrolling through, perhaps, an info page. You see 47%, then
> two lines later, Bot.
> A better calculation would be a / (a + b), the degree of "travel" of the
> windown through the buffer. This approaches 100% as the window reaches
> the bottom of the buffer.
I'd tend to agree, tho I don't have any strong feeling about it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 1:09 bug#1355: suggestion on the modeline xah lee
2008-11-17 2:57 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-17 23:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-11-18 9:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-18 10:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18 10:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-18 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-18 18:17 ` James Cloos
2020-09-19 21:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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