From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Buffers menu question Date: 26 Apr 2002 21:33:26 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adrqzlk9.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <871yd6cw8q.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <200204241755.g3OHtgQ03421@aztec.santafe.edu> <1190-Fri26Apr2002143254+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019824587 1479 127.0.0.1 (26 Apr 2002 12:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1714xf-0000Nk-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:36:27 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17150I-00085t-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:39:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1714xV-0007sY-00; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1714ur-0007Wq-00; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 08:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from tc-2-223.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.223] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp02.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 1714uo-00065R-00; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:33:30 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1D97E307E; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:33:27 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <1190-Fri26Apr2002143254+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 21 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3294 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3294 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > Wouldn't the buffer list look prettier if the modified/read-only > status were displayed to the left of the buffer names? As of now, if > the status is displayed (which is the default), the % and * mnemonics > are not aligned. I think if they were aligned at the left, it would > look better. I agree, but it's not really possible to align them properly in a variable-width font. For this reason, I considered modifying the lucid menu code to support true alignment of parts of menu-items*. While I think that probably wouldn't be too hard, I'm not sure what the right thing to do for other menu packages is (Lesstif & the various non-X platforms). *Probably by doing something like making it look for magic characters in menu-item strings, e.g. TAB or something otherwise non-displayable. -Miles -- Run away! Run away!