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Re: [Nano-devel] what to put where in the title bar


From: David Ramsey
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] what to put where in the title bar
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:43:25 -0500

Benno Schulenberg:
> David...  You are taking things to excess.

I wasn't sure how much of a jump you'd object to.  No offense intended,
but your descriptions of things can be overly terse, which to me makes
them unclear.  (And I'm aware that I'm probably overly wordy by your
standards.)

> First, this "jump" is just one character.  That is an entirely
> different league than when editing for example NEWS and
> syntax/python.nanorc, and appending the indicator after the file name,
> in which case the "jump" would be six characters. Second, even if the
> width of the indicator changes a bit, the starting point stays the
> same, so really there is no jump, it is steady.  And third, leading
> zeros are ugly -- they are meant for machines, not for humans.

Okay.  This *does* make your position clear.

> Yes, but without the leading zero.  And "whatever.txt" is centered, and
> "Modified" is right-aligned, as they are now.

Fine with me.



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