Re: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer".

[Noam Postavsky]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Numerically, "%p" is 100 * a / (a + W + b).
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> "%o" is 100 * a / (a + b).

Yeah, that makes much more sense, a percentage should range from %0 to
%100, and %p's formula doesn't. I think I've dealt with this mostly by
ignoring the number and looking at the scrollbar instead. With this
patch, I might actually be able to rely on the number.