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: even more(1) tells you how big the file is on the first screen Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:11 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E9AEBAF.3050608@yahoo.com> References: <878yufxgz9.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050340453 31660 80.91.224.249 (14 Apr 2003 17:14:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 14 19:14:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1957Wz-0008EC-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:14:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 1957XH-0008Oa-02 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 1957Wb-0007Um-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:13:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 1957WQ-00073o-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.245]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 1957UH-0005B6-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by mr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQokki19395 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:11:15 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:11:11 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:11:11 +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: 20 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050340271 169907 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 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4787 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4787 Richard Stallman wrote: > When the window start is at the top of the buffer, > the percentage of the buffer above the top is always 0. > I don't think "0%" is clearer than "Top". > > In the case of Bot, some real information is actually omitted. > However, the information that the bottom of the buffer is on the screen > is also useful. Agreed. But would it be possible to provide an additional mode line format code analagous to %p but measuring the percent of the buffer below the bottom of the window? Then users like Dan could add that to their customized mode-line-format and have both values. -- Kevin Rodgers