Re: ruler-mode is broken

[Lute Kamstra]

David PONCE <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm using GTK (and debian), btw; ruler-mode works fine with `default'
>> and `none' style fringes, and the header-line is simply blank with
>> `half' and `minimal' styles.
>
> Unfortunately I can't have access to an Emacs version that uses GTK :-(
>
> However, Lute observed that this toolkit seems to return inconsistent
> values when fringe-mode is 'half or 'minimal, and probably that confuses
> ruler-mode.

I think the bug in set-fringe-style is not related to the bug in ruler
mode.  set-fringe-style sometimes sets the fringes to the wrong width,
but window-fringes seems to return the widths to which the fringes are
actually set.  So if ruler mode uses window-fringes to compute the
fringe widths, it should work properly.

By the way, on my Emacs, both the minimal and the half style of
fringe-mode set the actual fringes to:

(window-fringes) => (5 6 nil)

So maybe you can reproduce the bug in ruler mode by using these
values.

  Lute.