From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [jidanni@deadspam.com: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye] Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:35:21 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206201435.g5KEZLF18772@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024583838 15565 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2002 14:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:37:18 +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 17L33l-00042w-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:37:17 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17L3VU-0007w2-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:05:56 +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 17L33d-0003Ky-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17L31v-00035B-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5KEZMC29773; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:35:22 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g5KEZLF18772; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:35:21 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:5011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5011 What do you think of this idea? ------- Start of forwarded message ------- To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: modeline doesn't divulge buffer will go bye bye Reply-To: Kindly_Remove_This_jidanni@ms46.hinet.net X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-44-196.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.44.196) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1024468445 9367596 61.227.44.196 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: 127.0.0.1!nobody Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Date: 19 Jun 2002 10:55:49 +0800 After using this ~20 years it dawns on me: The modeline of a buffer with an associated file and that with no associated file look the same. Bad. Buffer A has maximal autosaving, you name it, cutting edge in safety, all because it is associated with a file. Buffer B will go bye bye when you quit emacs, no matter what you put in it. Their modelines will never tell you that, gotta hit C-x C-b and look around. It seems B should have something in the modeline close to the left edge reminding one about the situation. Yes I know that most are *blabla*, but I'm talking about ones I create with C-x b blabla. OK, I don't do that too much, but that's not the point. The point is that the modeline tells you all the little stuff. The most important thing, the fact that this buffer will go bye bye without a trace is not mentioned there! - -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-emacs mailing list Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs ------- End of forwarded message -------