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bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeli
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline |
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Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:56:03 -0700 (PDT) |
> And I'm not sure about this:
>
> + (concat " " xs (and (< l2 l1)
> "…")))))
>
> Perhaps that should be conditional upon the terminal being able to
> display that character?
Interesting. Dunno why I used that char (which I guess is HORIZONTAL
ELLIPSIS). In my own code I in fact use "..." (3 period chars).
Maybe I tossed in an ellipsis char because others in the thread were
worried about losing mode-line space.
(FWIW, I had that ellipsis char in Emacs doc etc. At least in the
fonts I use (fixed width) it's so tiny as to be illegible. An
ellipsis in ordinary printed text is quite a bit wider than other
chars (which are anyway of unequal width). That Unicode provides a
single char for ellipsis is not a reason that we have to, or should,
use it. I think it works against readability - everywhere I've seen
it in Emacs.)
bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline,
Drew Adams <=