From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: new mode-line `%'-construct %o meaning "Degree of travel of window through buffer". Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20170518120116.161c1098@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20170515204416.GA7349@acm.fritz.box> <20170517211552.2a4dab7e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360gy6b5y.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495123516 19864 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2017 16:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 18 18:05:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dBNvE-0004ue-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 18:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBNvJ-0008Dz-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBNre-0005m4-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBNrd-0001Aa-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:41618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBNrZ-00019h-L0; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14EC598; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ADF2DE03F; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8360gy6b5y.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214946 Archived-At: On Thu, 18 May 2017 07:28:41 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 21:15:52 -0400 > > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > > Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Emacs developers > > > > > > 1) I don't see a good reason this shouldn't just be what %p does > > (that is, instead of adding %o, perhaps %p should be altered, > > since this is more sensible.) > > > > 2) If %p is not changed, a knob should be made available to allow > > users to invoke the %o in place of %p without having to edit the > > modeline specification themselves, which is currently quite > > messy. > > I think this was already said a few messages up-thread: we cannot > simply do 1), so we should do 2). > It occurs to me that there's another possibility, which is to allow the user to bind a function to do the position calculation so that everyone can get whatever flavor of calculation they want. -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com