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#34476
fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen
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Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:53:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: fixed
Found in version 5.13
Fixed in version 28.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #62 received at 34476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> There's four spaces between *scratch* and All because they have
>> different faces... which makes me wonder why there's trailing spaces in
>> the buffer name at all, instead of just three spaces after the buffer
>> name in the mode line format?
>
> That's because mode-line-buffer-identification uses %12b as the format
> to show the buffer name.
Yes, I was wondering whether that should be changed to something that's
just %b and then something that inserts some more spaces for short
buffer names...
Alternatively, we could compact spaces if the face doesn't use a
background colour? Hm...
>> There's also the question of allowing a value of `long' to
>> mode-line-compact -- which would only compact the mode line if it's
>> longer than the window width. Would that be difficult to add?
>
> No, it should be an almost trivial addition to the condition under
> which we perform the squeezing. Basically, compare it.current_x with
> it.last_visible_x.
Right. Do you want to apply your patch (to a branch?) and I can tweak
it further and add documentation and stuff?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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