From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlay arrow in *compilation* and *grep* buffers Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 07:12:17 +0300 Message-ID: <01c55904$Blat.v2.4$6d24d9c0@zahav.net.il> References: <01c548ba$Blat.v2.4$e4827900@zahav.net.il> <01c54909$Blat.v2.4$070f3e60@zahav.net.il> <01c54c2b$Blat.v2.4$e15e8560@zahav.net.il> <17009.19855.763603.487800@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <01c54c8a$Blat.v2.4$6afa17e0@zahav.net.il> <17009.62951.957607.360268@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87oebkw22l.fsf@jurta.org> <17027.16429.215672.493633@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87is1nlnt1.fsf@jurta.org> <17028.42314.992815.2073@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17030.46982.754961.996335@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116386049 1505 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 03:14:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 03:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 05:14:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYEza-000525-Jx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 05:13:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYF1o-0000nm-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 23:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXHn0-0001cM-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 08:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXCC2-0000lu-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 02:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXAbU-0000A1-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 00:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DXAeb-0002pR-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 00:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-84-228-245-50.inter.net.il [84.228.245.50]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id EJK97865 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 15 May 2005 07:15:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Nick Roberts X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <17030.46982.754961.996335@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Sun, 15 May 2005 14:44:22 +1200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37217 > From: Nick Roberts > Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:44:22 +1200 > Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The best way to test for a left-hand fringe (absence of) seems to be: > > (if (equal (car (window-fringes)) 0)... I'd suggest to make this a function, e.g. on subr.el or perhaps frame.el, in case some day this test needs to be modified, in which case we do not want to go through dozens of places that use it. > Its about the simplest patch I could think of that meets the requirements. > Shall I install it? FWIW, these changes are fine with me, but: . I think the manual and NEWS should mention it. . Please make sure it does TRT on systems that don't support start-process (say "M-: (fmakunbound 'start-process) RET" and see that "M-x compile" still works as you'd expect). Thanks.