Re: ruler-mode is broken

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > In this case what matters is how it works in the header-line, and it _does_
> > seem to do the right thing there;
> 
> Ok, yes, but as a general mechamism it doesn't work currently -- which I'm
> looking at.

I'm confused, why does it _matter_ whether a display property of ""
works or doesn't work properly in the `general case'?  It's clearly
sufficient for the problem at hand (and is already `implemented'), and
the simple extension of the display-property `when' mechanism to support
`cond' as well, plus the additional display-property :width arguments
you've implemented, should solve the ruler-mode header-line problems
simply and elegantly -- and I _thought_ that the ruler-mode header-line
problem was what this thread was about...

-Miles
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