From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii 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 07:28:41 +0300 Message-ID: <8360gy6b5y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170515204416.GA7349@acm.fritz.box> <20170517211552.2a4dab7e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495081773 15497 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2017 04:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 04:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 18 06:29:26 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 1dBD41-0003t6-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 06:29:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBD46-0002QM-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 00:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBD3W-0002Q5-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 00:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBD3S-0007uz-QH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 00:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBD3S-0007uv-ND; Thu, 18 May 2017 00:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4928 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dBD3R-0000pQ-Pa; Thu, 18 May 2017 00:28:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170517211552.2a4dab7e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (perry@piermont.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:214936 Archived-At: > 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).