From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Why was the global-mode-string moved? Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:04:33 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n0ott31a.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036197438 20600 80.91.224.249 (2 Nov 2002 00:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187mHt-0005M8-00 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:37:17 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 187mOC-0006HY-00 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:43:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187jpz-00005y-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187jpA-0008Eg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:59:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187jp8-0008E9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from gnudist.gnu.org ([199.232.41.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187jGZ-00009y-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:23:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by gnudist.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187j01-0007TZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:06:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.146] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 3118534 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:04:08 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187iy1-0005HQ-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:04:33 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9054 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9054 I found this entry: 2002-08-21 Kim F. Storm * bindings.el (mode-line-format): Moved global-mode-string last. (mode-line-position): Moved %p first. Added padding to %l/%c to eliminate jumpyness in modeline. Use (%l,%c) format if both line-number-mode and column-number-mode are enabled. Why was this done? I liked having the time of day, my current battery level, etc., *before* the minor-mode-alist. Since the minor-mode-alist has a tendency to be large, it now pushes everything so far off to the right that the mode-line is nearly useless. I can fix this for myself, but can anyone tell me why it shouldn't be moved back? I think the minor-mode-alist should be close to the end, since the information it conveys is less often reference than the other details on the mode-line. John