From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More visible mini-buffer prompt face Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:09:30 +0100 Message-ID: <45E0E1CA.7060307@gmail.com> References: <45DF1547.8010404@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0702240958s6a54086bv1c6d2664571ea6bc@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172365801 19379 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2007 01:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 25 02:09:54 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 1HL7te-0004lb-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:09:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HL7te-0004Gc-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HL7tP-0004EG-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HL7tO-0004CW-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HL7tO-0004CH-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HL7tN-0007db-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62079 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HL7tL-0000CM-4V; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:09:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0702240958s6a54086bv1c6d2664571ea6bc@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000716-3, 2007-02-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HL7tL-0000CM-4V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HL7tL-0000CM-4V 9fb30d39838abd9fd60cb52bd6d69d40 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:66766 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: >> I wonder if it would not be better to have a more visible face for >> the minibuffer prompt by default. My suggestion would be using a >> visible background color (some not too sharp yellow perhaps). > > I think that I understand the reason for you wanting this; I > sometimes miss the prompt at first, for example the prompt that is > displayed when trying to update a buffer who's file has been updated > on disk. I think that there are a couple of other situations as well, > but I don't remember any right now. ... > But! This differs from person to person! Another approach to this would be to give a more visible prompt as a standard option. It is quite easy to add an alternative in the options menu for this. I think it would fit very well below or above "Blinking Cursor" since it has kind of the same spirit. So I would suggest something in the menubar like "Options - More Noticeable Prompt" below "Blinking Cursor". Or, maybe just "Customize Prompt Face".