Re: ruler-mode is broken

[Kim F. Storm]

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

> I seems that set-fringe-style insists on setting the sum of the widths
> of the left and right fringe to a multiple of `(frame-char-width)',
> but does so in a (for me) counterintuitive way.  

At least it works exactly as I designed it to do ;-)


>                                                  If one can only set
> the left and right fringe width width to a pair (l-allowed .
> r-allowed) for which (% (+ l-allowed r-allowed) (frame-char-width)) is
> zero, I would expect an arbitrary width pair (l . r) to be mapped a
> pair (l-allowed . r-allowed) for which the Euclidean distance is
> minimal.  This is not the case as, for example:
> 
> (l . r)  |-->  (l-allowed . r-allowed)
> 
> (0 . 0)  |-->  (0 . 0)
> (0 . 1)  |-->  (0 . 11)
> (1 . 1)  |-->  (5 . 6)
> 
> Shall we change the behavior of set-fringe-style so that it minimizes
> the Euclidean distance?  

What results would you expect in the above examples ?
(0 . 0) in all cases?

What generic values would you use then to get the effect of 'miminal' (1 . 1)
and 'half' (5 . 5) fringes ?


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