From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:22:06 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D10BDBE.30207@ihs.com> References: <87wuswht8q.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024507450 4574 127.0.0.1 (19 Jun 2002 17:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17KjBi-0001Bf-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:24:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17KjBn-0001pi-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:24:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox3.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.55]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Kj9f-0001hU-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by mailbox3.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5JHM1Ld007250 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:22:01 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:22:00 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 18 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1024507319 9537362 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2152 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2152 Dan Jacobson wrote: > After using this ~20 years it dawns on me: The modeline of a buffer > with an associated file and that with no associated file look the > same. Bad. ... > The point is that the modeline tells you all the little stuff. The > most important thing, the fact that this buffer will go bye bye > without a trace is not mentioned there! No, the point is that many of us have actually been using Emacs for 20 years and not found it wanting in this regard, and those who want such a reminder displayed can simply customize the mode-line-format variable. -- Kevin Rodgers