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 19:18:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83r2zm3zqz.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495124758 28430 195.159.176.226 (18 May 2017 16:25:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:25:58 +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 18:25:54 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 1dBOFN-0007FW-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 18:25:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBOFR-0001Ss-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35549) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBO8L-0004V0-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBO8H-0007IB-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:18:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54509) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dBO84-0007FY-5J; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2412 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dBO83-0003TC-AH; Thu, 18 May 2017 12:18:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170518120116.161c1098@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:214947 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 12:01:16 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" > Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net > > It occurs to me that there's another possibility, which is to > allow the user to bind a function to do the position calculation so > that everyone can get whatever flavor of calculation they want. The mode-line format already supports :eval, so this should already be possible?