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bug#46476: Feature request: Right-aligning part of the modeline
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#46476: Feature request: Right-aligning part of the modeline |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:58:59 +0200 |
> From: Paweł Kraśnicki <paul.krasnicki@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:30:16 +0100
> Cc: 46476@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Can you describe how is this done in Lisp?
>
> Sure. The most common solution is to use a text property that displays a space
> with the `:align-to' property. Here's a simplified version of the code from
> the
> popular `powerline' package:
If people use :align-to, then what would be the advantage of providing
%-constructs to produce the same?
> > The immediate question about this I have is what to do when the
> > mode-line string is too long for the window's width? Right now, we
> > simply chop the stuff on the right that doesn't fit, but if the
> > mode-line string has 2 or 3 different part, that should be revised,
> > right?
>
> I'm not sure. With the current Lisp solutions, the modeline gets chopped on
> the
> right too, and it seems that people either don't mind that at all, or they use
> custom "segment" logic. The idea here is that the modeline is composed of a
> few
> segments, with each having a priority number. As the window shrinks, the
> segments get hidden in discrete jumps starting from the lowest priority, until
> only the segment(s) with the highest priority number remain. I think there may
> not be any demand for an intermediate solution that would let the user
> configure
> hiding with granularity of left/center/right.
That'd require two passes to generate the mode-line display, right?