From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9908: 24.0.90; Improve mode-line's "flags" section Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:48:41 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319968151 31527 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2011 09:49:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:49:11 +0000 (UTC) To: 9908@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 30 10:49:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKS0l-0002cR-Vj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKS0k-0006Ti-J2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:48:41 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:51:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53319 Archived-At: Severity: wishlist Hi, I'd like to propose some changes to the mode-line's "flags" section, to make it more clear and readable: 1. In text-mode, the very first character in the mode-line is always a dash. Since it is adjacent to the "flags" section, users could think that it is part of such section, i.e., that conveys some information. To avoid such confusion, I propose to write a space in that spot. 2. The EOL flag is not consistent across platforms[a], and I don't see the point of such inconsistency. So I propose to use always the same convention: ":", "\" and "/" for Unix, DOS, and MAC-type EOL formats. 3. When the buffer's default directory is local, the corresponding flag is a dash, which is very unfortunate, because there can be other dashes at both sides of that flag. So, I propose to substitute the dash for a space (the "@" would remain the same, of course). 4. In text-mode, The frame name is always preceded by a dash, which is also confusing, because one could think that it means something. I propose either remove it (shifting the frame name 1 position to left) or write a space in that spot. In GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2011-10-27 on DANI-PC Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5)' ---- Footnotes ---- [a] Quotation from (info "(emacs)Mode Line"): The character after CS is usually a colon. If a different string is displayed, that indicates a nontrivial end-of-line convention for encoding a file. Usually, lines of text are separated by "newline characters" in a file, but two other conventions are sometimes used. The MS-DOS convention uses a "carriage-return" character followed by a "linefeed" character; when editing such files, the colon changes to either a backslash (`\') or `(DOS)', depending on the operating system. Another convention, employed by older Macintosh systems, uses a "carriage-return" character instead of a newline; when editing such files, the colon changes to either a forward slash (`/') or `(Mac)'. On some systems, Emacs displays `(Unix)' instead of the colon for files that use newline as the line separator. -- Dani Moncayo