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30.0.92; which-key-setup-side-window-right causes which-key to fail

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mail <at> thomasvoss.com, 75765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, info <at> codesensei.nl
Subject: bug#75765: 30.0.92; which-key-setup-side-window-right causes which-key to fail
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:34:36 +0200

> Cc: Thomas Voss <mail <at> thomasvoss.com>, 75765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:42:53 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:23:31 +0000, Reindert-Jan Ekker <info <at> codesensei.nl> said:
> 
>     Reindert-Jan> Run the following:
>     Reindert-Jan> (which-key-mode 1)
>     Reindert-Jan> (which-key-setup-side-window-right)
> 
>     Reindert-Jan> Then press a key that would show a which-key overview (like M-s or
>     Reindert-Jan> M-g). This causes the error:
> 
>     Reindert-Jan> Error running timer ‘which-key--update’: (wrong-type-argument wholenump
>     Reindert-Jan> -15)
> 
>     Reindert-Jan> This error sometimes seems to go away, so on later key presses which-key
>     Reindert-Jan> may or may not work.
> 
> `which-key--pad-column' is not accounting for the case where the
> length of the string itʼs padding is greater than the number of
> available columns. This fixes it for me:
> 
> Robert
> -- 
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/which-key.el b/lisp/which-key.el
> index 45a02955e11..bfeb9da7422 100644
> --- a/lisp/which-key.el
> +++ b/lisp/which-key.el
> @@ -2038,7 +2038,7 @@ which-key--pad-column
>            (mapcar (pcase-lambda (`(,key ,sep ,desc ,_doc))
>                      (concat
>                       (format col-format key sep desc)
> -                     (make-string (- col-desc-width (string-width desc)) ?\s)))
> +                     (make-string (max (- col-desc-width (string-width desc)) 0) ?\s)))
>                    col-keys))))
>  
>  (defun which-key--partition-list (n list)

Please install on the emacs-30 branch, and thanks.

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