GNU bug report logs - #1779
23.0.60; proced with variable-pitch header line

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:10:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 1779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 1779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1779: 23.0.60; proced with variable-pitch header line
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:28:28 +0200
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:18:04 -0500 Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 19 2011, Stephen Berman wrote:
>> The patch is below.  The only change I made from the previous patch
>> (aside from leaving out the face change) is to omit the comment from
>> buff-menu.el about assuming fixed-pitch, since obviously we aren't
>> making that assumption (though it's true that :align-to works best with
>> fixed-pitch, but still I definitely think it's an improvement).
>
> I am sorry, this patch does not work for me!

> I do not use variable-pitch fonts. But I use the longer proced formats.
> With the new code the header line does not scroll horizontally anymore
> as required for the longer proced formats.
> Yet stranger, when scrolling the proced buffer to the right, some
> headers on the left simply disappear, whereas headers on the right part
> of the window stay where they are. So for the long proced formats, the
> header line has become rather useless. -- What is more annoying: the old
> wrong behavior for variable-pitch fonts or the new behavior?

Certainly the new behavior is untenable; please revert my patch.  I
didn't know about the long format and didn't test it.  I took a quick
look but couldn't come up with a quick fix.  I'll try some more when I
have time, but it won't be soon; if you or somebody else can find a fix,
that would be great.  Or maybe this problem is a good argument for
hardcoding fixed-pitch for the proced header line.

Sorry for the poorly tested patch.

Steve Berman




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