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#44068
28.0.50; Faulty uses of tabulated-list-format
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Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 20:01:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Merged with 41861
Found in versions 27.0.91, 28.0.50
Done: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> On trying out the new tabulated-list implementation of the bookmarks
> list I noticed that, when clicking on the File header, the sort
> indicator is not displayed, unlike with the Bookmark header. Then I
> noticed that the same thing happens in the tabulated buffer list (C-x
> C-b). Then I grepped for all uses of tabulated-list-format in the Emacs
> sources and found the same problem in most of them. The reason is that
> in these modes the width of at least one of the columns is too narrow,
> so that tabulated-list-init-header omits the indicator. In most cases
> the problematic column is the final one, but in a couple of cases there
> are also non-final too narrow columns. And I think these bugs are due
> to a misleading description in tabulated-list-format's doc string. The
> attached patch corrects the doc string and the problematic uses of
> tabulated-list-format. The patch also fixes a typo and tries to improve
> column alignment in timer-list-mode: this is one of the few modes
> derived from tabulated-list-mode whose column widths didn't need to be
> corrected, but the alignment seemed suboptimal; however, when the header
> line uses a variable-pitch face, the alignment is still suboptimal even
> with the patch, and I don't know how to fix that.
This rings a bell (maybe). I think the sort-indicator
problem might be a duplicate bug report, but I can't
find the dup now. There are some inherent problems
with the rightmost column, IIRC, that being one of them.
(Dunno whether this helps at all. Probably not.)
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