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mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Subject: bug#64597: closed (Re: bug#64597: mode-line tool inaccessible
 when window width is small)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:38:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#64597: mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 64597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
Cc: 64597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64597: mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:37:42 +0300

> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:23:40 +0000
> From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
> Cc: 64597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > You can try setting mode-line-compact non-nil. If even that doesn't
> > solve your problem because you make your frames too narrow, or have
> > too many minor mode lighters active at the same time, then there's
> > nothing else Emacs can do: the fact that the mode line is a single
> > screen line is currently a hard restriction in the design of the Emacs
> > display, and so extra mode-line elements are truncated on display.
> 
> The compact setting replaces multiple spaces with a single space.  It does
> not really solve the problem.
> 
> Wontfix is not a good decision.  Changes window sizes is a very common
> occurrence.  Having a hard restriction on the mode-line is quite bad design
> to continue working with.   Especially when package-defined and self-defined 
> minor modes are becoming quite common.

Thanks, noted.

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From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:15:58 +0000

When a window is reduced in size I find no way to be able to use the mode-line tools.

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