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bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeli
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Drew Adams |
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bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline |
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Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:35:08 -0700 (PDT) |
> > I'd argue (but not forcefully) for just "...". As I
> > mentioned, "…" is, for me, useless as an ellipsis. I think
> > it must be useless for nearly everyone, with a fixed-width
> > font.
>
> I kinda like … because it takes up so little space, and the reason we're
> normally truncating strings is because they take up too much space. So
> using that limited space for "..." is counter-productive.
It's not about losing any more mode-line space.
Instead, it should be about losing 2 more chars
from the info displayed for this in the mode-line.
> But this should be standardised throughout Emacs, and work out of the
> box automatically on systems that can display the character and not,
> which makes truncate-string-to-width less than ideal.
>
> There also, of course, the issue of "well, if the call says 'truncate to
> 15 characters', how much should we remove when we add the …?" Because …
> usually takes a bit more than a single normal character to display,
> while "..." takes three.
FTR, I disagree.
Better to truncate an additional 2 chars and use a
"real" ellipsis: "...". The single char ellipsis
is awful, at least in any fixed-width font I've used.
If we're truncating, we're truncating. Truncating 2
more chars is not so bad. It's more important to
clearly pass the message that the thing _is_ truncated.
And the ellipsis char doesn't do that clearly.
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Andy Moreton, 2020/10/01
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Juri Linkov, 2020/10/02
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/02
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/02
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/03