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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9908@debbugs.gnu.org, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#9908: 24.0.90; Improve mode-line's "flags" section
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:26:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wno9iucm.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RKSqt-00054S-QW@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:42:55 -0400")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

[all other cases elided]

> I don't see why this is unfortunate.  A space doesn't carry more or
> less information than a dash: both mean there's nothing to show.  What
> is important is not to have the dash signify anything in particular.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I agree with Eli's point about dashes in the TTY, and with his points
about the other flags.  I think the conclusion here is that none of the
proposed changes are clearly better than what we have today, and any
changes here have to be a lot better to justify changing them -- because
any changes in this area leads to user confusion and annoyance.

So I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-25 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-30  9:48 bug#9908: 24.0.90; Improve mode-line's "flags" section Dani Moncayo
2011-10-30 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-30 11:26   ` Dani Moncayo
2021-08-25 12:26   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-10-31  9:29 ` Richard Stallman

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