[Bug]

[psionic-k]

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Bug description

I previously had a setting combination to pad my column on the right. This configuration no longer achieves the desired effect. The -3 in mode-line-position-column-format is ignored.

(setopt doom-modeline-position-column-line-format '("%3l:%c"))
(setopt mode-line-position-column-format '(" C%-3c"))

Steps to reproduce

Use settings

Expected behavior

Buffer position is represented with a stable length string that only has a discontinuity on column 1k and again at line 1k, "123:2 " etc. With content positioned afterward, it no longer jitters around wildly.

OS

Linux

Emacs Version

30

Emacs Configurations

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Error callstack

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Anything else

I played around with the new values, doom-modeline-position-line-format etc. The format spec ends up printing a lot of dashes, like "-----------------------------------------" whenever I use anything like "%3-c" on either column or mode line.

[seagle0128]

Did you try doom-modeline-position-comumn-format? doom-modeline doesn't respect mode-line-position-column-format, and it's as designed.

[psionic-k]

Yeah, I set doom-modeline-position-column-line-format to ("%3l:%-3c") and it goes nuts.

This is with doom-modeline-position-line-format set to ("L%l") and doom-modeline-position-column-format set to ("C%c").

I have twiddled them to confirm which ones are even used with line-number-mode and column-number-mode etc. No combination will restore the old behavior. 3 is fine, not what I want, but fine-ish. -3 used to work but now does not.

[seagle0128]

There are no changes for this recently in doom-modeline, and the behaviors are exactly same as vanilla Emacs. I tried emacs -Q to check, and -3 doesn't work, either.

[psionic-k]

The old configuration is not there by accident. I used it for many months.

In any case, it is currently wrong. We cannot actually use these specifiers because they don't respect any normal formatting directives.

[psionic-k]

That's not really related. At the time, I believe doom read from the normal Emacs variable rather than re-declaring its own. The fact that I stopped at that configuration and had a working solution is proof enough that the support was there. It now is not.

I only use this customization when I use keycast, which I have to hack into doom mode line anyway. My hack is to advise the line position segment. Here we are.

Alternatively I would be more than happy to settle for a stable position for keycast output and to have keycast integration built in. At present I'm just duct taping them together because I can.

[seagle0128]

I didn't get the point. mode-line-position-column-format is never supported in doom-modeline, but you said it worked before. And in my env, -3 always shows many dashes, in both vanilla mode-line and doom-modeline. The new options are introduced in d739ab5, because the default values are different from the Emacs variables. As I said, it's as designed. At least Emacs variables aren't used so far. So I am confused.

[psionic-k]

always shows many dashes

Now. I fixed this about a year ago. I don't disagree that behavior has changed.

Anyway, it doesn't work with format specifiers, and that is a problem that is requiring me to hack around to get a stable segment length so that my hacked on keycast isn't jumping around like a maniac. Keycast has to be last of leading part of the segments or else the key will be jumping around as the command lengths change.

[seagle0128]

Now. I fixed this about a year ago. I don't disagree that behavior has changed.

Can you please provide the commit? I will check if it can be merged.

Maybe you should make your own keycast segment to achieve?

[psionic-k]

I fixed this by customizing options lol. There is no commit. It has just been this way in my config without incident until recently.

[seagle0128]

Then I have no idea. I even don't if it's an issue.