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Re: Customizing the mode line
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Manoj Srivastava |
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Re: Customizing the mode line |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:09:43 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
On Fri, Oct 30 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> information that is much less important, like
>> the percentage of the file before the window start
>
> I indeed never look at it, but I'm uneasy removing it: basically I find
> it redundant when you have scrollbars, but in case you don't have
> scrollbars (e.g. in a non-GUI terminal) it's not redundant (but I got
> so used to using the scrollbars that it never occurs to me to look at
> the modeline for that info. Actually, I do look at the mode-line when
> I need to figure out "where am I" but then I look at the line number
> rather than the percentage).
> What do other people think about it?
I am not a emacs developer, but as a long time user I would
prefer to have the percentages instead of the scrollbar, if there were
a choice (I know there is not). But I would much rather preserve the
percentages.
I also find the scrollbar somewhat confusing: When the end of
buffer is visible in the window, I would expect the scrollbar to reach
all the way to the bottom, but it does not.
> I think the major-mode/minor mode display is important, but I agree that
> it often takes up a lot of space to display unchanging info. It would
> be good to come up with some way to make it more space efficient.
> Maybe we could replace "(Mail Fly Abbrev Fill)" with "(Mail..FAF)" and
> then expand the FAF to "Fly Abbrev Fill" in a tooltip.
How would this work on a non-windowed environment? Could a
mechanism be devised to show the minor modes on user request, say, in
the minibuffer?
manoj
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- RE: Customizing the mode line, (continued)
Re: Customizing the mode line, Miles Bader, 2009/10/31
- Re: Customizing the mode line, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/31
- Re: Customizing the mode line, Juanma Barranquero, 2009/10/31
- RE: Customizing the mode line, Drew Adams, 2009/10/31
- Re: Customizing the mode line, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/31
- RE: Customizing the mode line, Drew Adams, 2009/10/31
Re: Customizing the mode line,
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