From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs mode for GDB - 2 questions Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:57:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020603105709.8FB9.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <15606.38559.603367.869040@nick.uklinux.net> <200205312127.g4VLRd915638@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023094840 12634 127.0.0.1 (3 Jun 2002 09:00:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Enhf-0003Hd-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Eo12-0001pr-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:20:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Enh6-00060T-00; Mon, 03 Jun 2002 05:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17EneV-0005sz-00; Mon, 03 Jun 2002 04:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from jbarranquero (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g538vL932531; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:57:21 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200205312127.g4VLRd915638@aztec.santafe.edu> X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.00.11 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4560 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4560 On Fri, 31 May 2002 15:27:39 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman wrote: > This leads to a further idea. Suppose that every mode line (and every > header line) were actually a separate window, and formatting of mode > line elements was done by converting them into text in a buffer. That would be really useful. On one hand, because it'd be easier to do some things with the modeline, in the sense that now to do fancy things you have to resort to :exec and do fancy tricks, etc., while with your proposed method all full power of elisp buffer/string manipulation would be at user's (or module's writer's) hands. On the other, because that would make mode-line information (like current line / column) far easier to use from a module. /L/e/k/t/u