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bug#6000: describe-text-sexp does not know window-width
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#6000: describe-text-sexp does not know window-width |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:07:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>> (with-selected-window (or (get-buffer-window "*Help*") (selected-window))
>> (window-width))
>
> Martin referred to this bug report from bug#17831, and I noticed
> that instead of hard-coding the "*Help*" buffer name, better would be
> to use (current-buffer) because the formatted buffer is current:
>
> (- (if (window-live-p (get-buffer-window (current-buffer) t))
> (with-selected-window (get-buffer-window (current-buffer) t)
> (window-width))
> (window-width))
> (current-column))
This sounds like a good idea to me, but there wasn't a recipe to
reproduce whatever error this bug report was talking about, so I can't
test.
Does anybody have a test case that displays the problem (in case it's
still in place after all these years)?
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