Re: Advice needed on modeline customization hack...

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:59:01 -0400 Clément Pit-Claudel
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2017-04-16 12:09, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >>> +(defvar column-number-mode-starts-from-zero t
> >>> +  "When set to true, Column Number mode displays columns
> >>> starting from zero. +Otherwise, column numbers start from
> >>> one.")    
> >> Maybe "displayed column numbers" instead of "column numbers"?  
> > So how would you like the final version to read?  
> 
> Would "Otherwise, displayed column numbers start from one." work?
> Or does it sound unnatural?

It seems fine to me, I'll make your suggested change.

I found an issue, though, which is that there's code throughout
xdisp.c that checks if w->column_number_displayed is the same as
current_column() in order to decide if it should update the modeline.
Naturally what I've done will break that.

I'm thinking perhaps I should add a flag to the window structure
instead that says "add one when printing this" instead of changing
the value of w->column_number_displayed, but I can't quite figure out
where the modeline actually gets printed, only where
column_number_displayed gets set.

(I'll keep hunting unless someone pipes up.)

Perry
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