Re: ruler-mode is broken

[Lute Kamstra]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I get the impression that things go wrong for (set-fringe-mode (cons l r)) 
>> when either l or r is 5 or smaller.
>> 
>> I think there's a bug in set-fringe-mode as well (unrelated to the bug
>> in ruler-mode).  
>
> Not really...  at least as long as window widths are required to
> be a whole number of columns wide (based on the default frame font).
>
>>                  The argument (5 .  5) gives me fringes on the left
>> and right that are smaller than the default (nil . nil).  However, the
>> arguments (5 . 0) and (0 . 5) have exactly the same result as (nil . 0) 
>> and (0 . nil), respectively: they give a single fringe of the default
>> width on the left and right, respectively.
>
> The total width of the left and right fringe is always rounded up to a
> whole number of columns.  So (5 . 0) is equal to (<column width> . 0),
> which is also the usual interpretation of (nil . 0) if your column
> width is larger than 8 (the minimum no. of pixels required by the
> default setting).

I just figured that out.  I think the rounding scheme is strange,
though.  (See my other message.)

I also just found out that set-window-fringes actually sets the
fringes to any width you like.  Why the difference between
set-window-fringes and set-fringe-style?

  Lute.