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 22:43:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83pof63q9f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170515204416.GA7349@acm.fritz.box> <20170517211552.2a4dab7e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <8360gy6b5y.fsf@gnu.org> <20170518120116.161c1098@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <83r2zm3zqz.fsf@gnu.org> <20170518124541.4cce1567@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495136656 22583 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2017 19:44:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 19:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Perry E. Metzger" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 18 21:44:12 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 1dBRLG-0005hI-Rk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 21:44:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBRLK-0006HF-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 15:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBRKk-0006Gk-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 15:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBRKg-0001zl-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 15:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBRKT-0001sq-Dm; Thu, 18 May 2017 15:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2758 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dBRKR-0003mD-Uh; Thu, 18 May 2017 15:43:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170518124541.4cce1567@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:214957 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 12:45:41 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > > > The mode-line format already supports :eval, so this should already > > be possible? > > I meant just having a knob that could be set to a function that would > run and produce the value for %p rather than changing mode-line-format > with :eval. Though maybe this would be too slow? I don't mind, I just don't see a lot of difference between having a knob and using :eval directly, for someone who can write a Lisp function that would work in this context.