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31.0.50; text-scale confuses ruler-mode when display-line-number-mode is active

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Arsen Arsenović <arsen <at> aarsen.me>
Cc: 75168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75168: 31.0.50; text-scale confuses ruler-mode when display-line-number-mode is active
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:58:27 +0200

> From: Arsen Arsenović <arsen <at> aarsen.me>
> Cc: 75168 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:16:24 +0100
> 
> > This is almost perfect. The (- ... 1) in the :width pixel spec is
> > obviously a hack (and breaks this patch in emacs -nw).  I have no idea
> > why an extra pixel is inserted in GUI mode.  If you apply the above but
> > remove (- ... 1), you'll see the following: [...]
> 
> I've refined the patch:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/ruler-mode.el b/lisp/ruler-mode.el
> index 003dcae560f..64568e06cc9 100644
> --- a/lisp/ruler-mode.el
> +++ b/lisp/ruler-mode.el
> @@ -632,12 +632,7 @@ ruler-mode-ruler
>    (let* ((w (ruler-mode-text-scaled-window-width))
>           (m (window-margins))
>           (f (window-fringes))
> -         (i (if display-line-numbers
> -                ;; FIXME: ruler-mode relies on I being an integer, so
> -                ;; the column numbers might be slightly off if the
> -                ;; line-number face is customized.
> -                (round (line-number-display-width 'columns))
> -              0))
> +         (i 0)
>           (j (ruler-mode-text-scaled-window-hscroll))
>           ;; Setup the scrollbar, fringes, and margins areas.
>           (lf (ruler-mode-space
> @@ -745,6 +740,12 @@ ruler-mode-ruler
>        (dolist (p (nreverse props))
>          (add-text-properties (nth 0 p) (nth 1 p) (nthcdr 2 p) ruler-str))
>  
> +      ;; Attach an alignment indent.
> +      (if display-line-numbers
> +          (setq ruler-str
> +                (concat (ruler-mode-space `(,(line-number-display-width t)))
> +                        ruler-str)))
> +
>        ;; Return the ruler propertized string.  Using list here,
>        ;; instead of concat visually separate the different areas.
>        (if (nth 2 (window-fringes))
> 
> This works perfectly on PGTK (and with -nw) - that extra pixel I
> mentioned seems to be an artifact, or perhaps a bug, of the Lucid
> toolkit.
> 
> What do you think of the above?

Seems to work well, so could you please submit a full patch with the
commit log message, so we could then install this?

Thanks.

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