From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mode-line with Tramp Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:10:52 +1200 Message-ID: <18082.37500.513062.894770@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <18065.63231.612402.142669@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18066.59645.564793.472461@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87k5t88258.fsf@gmx.de> <18068.35413.238789.960586@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <878x9m6825.fsf@gmx.de> <18069.23173.327298.566469@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18070.44458.968610.559681@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87myxyhvku.fsf@gmx.de> <18075.64647.459220.644967@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18077.53954.67784.465789@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18079.62390.365307.553494@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87zm1po90p.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185059471 985 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2007 23:11:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 01:11:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ICO6N-0005Gr-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:11:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICO6M-0003tn-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:11:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICO6J-0003tY-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICO6I-0003tM-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICO6H-0003tJ-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICO6E-00004v-CW; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:10:58 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (169.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.169]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9A73D928E; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:10:55 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B6258FC66; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:10:53 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <87zm1po90p.fsf@jurta.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.32 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:75264 Archived-At: > Maybe it would be better to use "@" instead of "R" to indicate the remote > directory? > > -RRR:%%@-R Yes "R" is only meaningful to an English speaker, "@" is more international. > "@" is less likely as the frame name, and "@" has good mnemonic as > a symbol often used in addresses of remote directories. > > Also another question: is it possible not to show useless placeholder "-" > when the directory is not remote? When the directory is not remote, placing the pointer over the hyphen displays the value of the default-directory. It does look a bit distracting but perhaps that's because I'm not used to it. If people prefer, I could remove it. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob