gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Sten Drescher]

When I do a horizontal split, the mode line isn't working right.  I
display the time in the mode line, so I do:

(add-hook 'display-time-hook
	  (lambda () (setq gnus-mode-non-string-length 
			   (+ 29 (length display-time-string)))))

	It looks like, in a horizontal split, sgnus 0.80 is still
creating the mode line like it has the full line width, rather than
just part of it.  Is this a known problem, or am I doing something
wrong here?

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sten Drescher <sten.drescher@tivoli.com> writes:

> When I do a horizontal split, the mode line isn't working right.  I
> display the time in the mode line, so I do:
> 
> (add-hook 'display-time-hook
> 	  (lambda () (setq gnus-mode-non-string-length 
> 			   (+ 29 (length display-time-string)))))

`gnus-mode-non-string-length' is no longer used by default.  The
buffer names (etc) are all shown unabbreviated, and will push other
items off the mode line.  If you have other stuff on the mode line,
you should either do what you've done here, or modify
`gnus-summary-mode-line-format' (and so on).

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Sten Drescher]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

LMI> Sten Drescher <sten.drescher@tivoli.com> writes:
>> When I do a horizontal split, the mode line isn't working right.  I
>> display the time in the mode line, so I do:
>> 
>> (add-hook 'display-time-hook (lambda () (setq
>> gnus-mode-non-string-length (+ 29 (length display-time-string)))))

LMI> `gnus-mode-non-string-length' is no longer used by default.  The
LMI> buffer names (etc) are all shown unabbreviated, and will push
LMI> other items off the mode line.  If you have other stuff on the
LMI> mode line, you should either do what you've done here, or modify
LMI> `gnus-summary-mode-line-format' (and so on).

	But I `did what you've done here`, and it's still getting
pushed off.  If doing this is supposed to fix that, it doesn't, and
it's a bug.

	Sten

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net> writes:

> 	But I `did what you've done here`, and it's still getting
> pushed off.  If doing this is supposed to fix that, it doesn't, and
> it's a bug.

Yup.  The function used `frame-width' instead of `window-width'.  Fix
in 0.81.

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Sten Drescher]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

LMI> Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net> writes:
>> But I `did what you've done here`, and it's still getting pushed
>> off.  If doing this is supposed to fix that, it doesn't, and it's a
>> bug.

LMI> Yup.  The function used `frame-width' instead of `window-width'.
LMI> Fix in 0.81.

	Question to the readers at large: Am I the only one here who
is using a horizontal split and the time in the mode line?  I ask
because this bug has been in since Gnus 5.0.15.

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net> writes:

> 	Question to the readers at large: Am I the only one here who
> is using a horizontal split and the time in the mode line?  I ask
> because this bug has been in since Gnus 5.0.15.

And you haven't reported it before?  Tsk, tsk.  :-)

But I guess most people use multiple frames instead of horizontal
splits.  At least that's my impression.

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Sten Drescher]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

LMI> Sten Drescher <stend@grendel.texas.net> writes:
>> Question to the readers at large: Am I the only one here who is
>> using a horizontal split and the time in the mode line?  I ask
>> because this bug has been in since Gnus 5.0.15.

LMI> And you haven't reported it before?  Tsk, tsk.  :-)

	I just hadn't taken the time to reconfigure the windows 'till
now.  And since I'm only running emacs 19.29 at home (off a CD - I
don't have the HD space to install 19.30), I'm using Gnus 5.0.15, as
opposed to emacs 19.30 and sgnus 0.80 at work.

LMI> But I guess most people use multiple frames instead of horizontal
LMI> splits.  At least that's my impression.

	Well, I have enough windows floating around my screens as it
is - I like the idea of keeping related info in one window, although I
tend to pop up a separate frame for Info, and editing .emacs and
.gnus.

	Sten

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Dave Goldberg]

> 	Question to the readers at large: Am I the only one here who
> is using a horizontal split and the time in the mode line?  I ask
> because this bug has been in since Gnus 5.0.15.

Nope. Me too.  I've just ignored it. I look at the mode line so rarely
I don't think I noticed it until your initial message.

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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "DG" == Dave Goldberg <dsg@linus.mitre.org> writes:

DG> Nope. Me too.  I've just ignored it. I look at the mode line so rarely
DG> I don't think I noticed it until your initial message.

I have a horizontal split that doesn't go all the way down the page.  The
top of the screen is split in two (subject and tree views) with the article
at the bottom.  All I cared about was that there was as much space as
possible in the bottom mode line for the subject of the message.  The new
GNUS behavior breaks that; there's wasted space at the right of the longer
mode line.
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Re: gnus-buffer-configuration bug?

[Sten Drescher]

>>>>> Jason L Tibbitts writes:

JLT> I have a horizontal split that doesn't go all the way down the
JLT> page.  The top of the screen is split in two (subject and tree
JLT> views) with the article at the bottom.  All I cared about was
JLT> that there was as much space as possible in the bottom mode line
JLT> for the subject of the message.  The new GNUS behavior breaks
JLT> that; there's wasted space at the right of the longer mode line.

	This could be because the default mode lines use %%b, which
lets emacs put in the buffer name.  Since Gnus doesn't look at that
when truncating the line, you have to add a large constant to the
gnus-mode-non-string-length.  My solution has been to take %%b out of
the mode lines (since the emacs-added portion contains the mode name),
and use the following display-time-hook:

(add-hook 'display-time-hook
	  (lambda () (setq gnus-mode-non-string-length 
			   (+ 15
			      (length display-time-string)
			      (length mode-name)
			      (length mode-line-process) 
			      (if line-number-mode 5 0)
			      (if column-number-mode 4 0)))))


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