Re: ruler-mode is broken

[Kim F. Storm]

Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> I think this is nice feature, regardless of the problem you describe
> below.  If/when you document it, could you reference it from the
> Mode-Line Format section in the Lisp manual?  It's probably only
> useful when used in the mode and header line.

Good suggestion.  I'll do that.

> 
> > This still isn't completely perfect as the minimum width of any
> > stretch glyph is 1 pixel so if there is, say, no left scroll-bar and
> > no left margin, the above will be off by 2 pixels.
> 
> That's a pity.  Would it be much work to allow stretch glyphs to have
> zero width?

It may cause some confusion in connection with cursor movement if
there is a glyph with zero width ... where do you display the cursor?
The proper thing is probably to skip over such glyphs by treating them
as invisible, but I don't know how difficult that is.

But if we restrict those elements to the header and mode lines (where
they are most useful), it won't be difficult.


I've put it on my personal to-do list to investigate this.


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