From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Diffs between %s and %s end here Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:20:30 +0100 Message-ID: <85fxuy8629.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <434pbqcaz5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <200803021853.m22IrRvA000730@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803031858.m23IwToH009344@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803041839.m24Idmis008291@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200803052150.m25Loonc011429@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <85pru5m2ut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87iqzwzysx.fsf@jurta.org> <87hcfgvpvp.fsf@jurta.org> <87k5kb7pm9.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205198151 24067 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2008 01:15:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , dann@ics.uci.edu, miles@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 02:16:18 2008 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 1JYt6B-0005Vs-BO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:16:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYt5c-0006U5-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYt5O-0006Kl-UK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYt5N-0006It-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYt5N-0006Ij-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYt5M-00043O-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYt5F-0003Sl-Ko; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5A07D1C4CE2B; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:20:29 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:12:03 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:92108 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Then we could use the same non-intrusive solution already implemented for > compile: when compilation is successful it displays the successful status > in the mode line of the compilation buffer in green. When compilation > fails, it displays the error code in the mode line in red. > > Using faces that way seems like a good idea. Still, the arguments > offered against inserting a "finished" message, like M-x compile > and M-x diff, seem to make much ado about very little. As long as there is reasonable agreement that a "very little" change is an improvement, I don't see anything wrong in following through. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum