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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 |
Date: |
Thu, 14 May 2020 16:42:14 -0700 (PDT) |
> Maybe instead of boolean better to use a number for the allowed limit
> that should not grow more than this number that means the length of
> switches string that the user can tolerate on the modeline.
>
> Then modeline will display abbreviation truncated to the specified
> number of characters, with an ellipses, on the assumption that
> the most important switches are at the beginning of the string.
> Customizing it to 0 effectively disables the display of switches.
I suggested a choice, one possibility being a format string.
A format string also lets you truncate. But sure, another
choice offered could be what you suggest (a simpler way to
specify just truncation).
I made the suggestion in an emacs-devel thread, which hasn't
been referenced so far in this bug thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg01851.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-05/msg01964.html
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/13
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Juri Linkov, 2020/05/14
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Drew Adams, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Drew Adams, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Drew Adams, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Drew Adams, 2020/05/15
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Arthur Miller, 2020/05/16
- bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline, Drew Adams, 2020/05/17