From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evil Boris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customizing the mode line Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:36:02 -0500 Message-ID: <33304.6048567214$1257352699@news.gmane.org> References: <83skd1dta0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257352699 20574 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2009 16:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:38:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 04 17:38:12 2009 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 1N5is8-0008Ks-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:38:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5is7-0007fm-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5iqJ-0006vA-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5iqE-0006sF-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:36:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51625 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5iqE-0006s3-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44445) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5iqD-0004ok-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N5iq9-0007AU-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:09 +0100 Original-Received: from 128.238.34.198 ([128.238.34.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:09 +0100 Original-Received: from evilborisnet by 128.238.34.198 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.238.34.198 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ghJ+4HwPllXj+Mclw6jNWNCE2U= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 X-Spam-Report: 8.6 points; * 3.2 MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS Spam tool Message-Id: (letters variant) * 0.0 RCVD_BY_IP Received by mail server with no name * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record * 4.0 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO * 1.4 INVALID_MSGID Message-Id is not valid, according to RFC 2822 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116629 Archived-At: >> like >> the percentage of the file before the window start > > I indeed never look at it, but I'm uneasy removing it: basically I find > it redundant when you have scrollbars, but in case you don't have > scrollbars (e.g. in a non-GUI terminal) I am sure usages vary, but with every new "improvement" in GUIness of Emacs I modify my .emacs to turn the feature off. No menu bar. No scroll bars. No tool bar. Thank you. Please keep the percentage of the buffer around, or make it easy to put back in if you do not.