GNU bug report logs - #64851
30.0.50; mode-line right align and vertical scroll-bars

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Message #18 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: German Pacenza <germanp82 <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Hugo Heagren <hugo <at> heagren.com>,
 64851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64851: 30.0.50; mode-line right align and vertical scroll-bars
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 22:46:36 +0200

tags 64851 notabug
close 64851
thanks

German Pacenza <germanp82 <at> hotmail.com> writes:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Personally, I think the only reasonable response to this report is
> > "Don't do that".  The value of mode-line-position accounts only for 4
> > digits in the line number (it uses min-width 5.0, with one character
> > taken up by the leading "L"), and that is insufficient for buffers
> > larger that 9999 lines.  So if this is what you want, i.e. you want
> > mode-line-position to be the last part of the mode line, you need to
> > redefine mode-line-position to support more digits in the line number.
>
> Replacing mode-line-position with "%o   L%l" does the trick.
> Thanks.

Thanks, I'm therefore closing this bug.

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