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: Some developement questions Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:27:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83in3kx8ug.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8336v6cvem.fsf@gnu.org> <8736v6icgt.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83tvnmb958.fsf@gnu.org> <877ekigiiw.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <837ekhb2me.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhxcbmtr.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83in409lub.fsf@gnu.org> <871sanb71j.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <83y3cu7t9j.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg8t2ki9.fsf@himinbjorg.adminart.net> <20180827015422.lcq44zvsjffeau4j@Ergus> <83a7p76f5e.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg8p9o6y.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83pnxx1foj.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1o1a06q.fsf@russet.org.uk> <877ek1ql6u.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <19f783eb-a688-2a69-e209-ea161177c8cb@cs.ucla.edu> <83pnxsy8dp.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhww9xxk.fsf@phil.uni-goettingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536161199 10367 195.159.176.226 (5 Sep 2018 15:26:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 15:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Joost Kremers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 17:26:34 2018 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 1fxZhR-0002Y4-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 17:26:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxZjY-0004t2-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxZip-0004sU-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxZik-0005Kc-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxZik-0005KW-Ov; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1829 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fxZik-0004zo-CB; Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:27:54 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zhww9xxk.fsf@phil.uni-goettingen.de> (message from Joost Kremers on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:59:51 +0200) 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:229297 Archived-At: > From: Joost Kremers > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , hw@adminart.net, spacibba@aol.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:59:51 +0200 > > IMHO the monospace font is not the problem. The font I get when I > do `emacs -Q` looks quite good (it's DejaVu Sans Mono, BTW). But > some way to visualise different types of information (similar to > what most mode-line packages do), perhaps a few unicode symbols > and a default way to put things at the right side of the mode line > would, I think, go a long way to make the mode line look more > modern. Wrt "a few Unicode symbols", do you have concrete proposals? Thanks.