GNU bug report logs - #64597
mode-line tool inaccessible when window width is small

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Message #24 received at 64597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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