From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:35:00 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znvd1qkr.fsf@wesley.springies.com> References: <5xk7mlfsvf.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200208210429.NAA19918@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030120845 18026 127.0.0.1 (23 Aug 2002 16:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17iHUK-0004gd-00 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17iHxm-0007qS-00 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:11:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17iHVU-00088E-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17iHTF-00086F-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17iHTD-000863-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.5.17]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17iHTD-00085y-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from wesley.springies.com (ool-182f7213.dyn.optonline.net [24.47.114.19]) by mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 0.9 (built Jul 29 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H1B00M2G2A3XZ@mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:39:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ats by wesley.springies.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17iHTC-0004vE-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:39:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200208210429.NAA19918@etlken.m17n.org> Original-To: Kenichi Handa User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 16 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:6801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6801 Kenichi Handa writes: > I'd like to display such global information not in the mode > line but, for instance, at the right end of menu bar, or > tool bar if they exist. No. This information is important to the user (otherwise the user would not have turned it on). Putting it at the end of anything, be it the mode-line, the menu bar, or the tool bar, will sometimes lose this information if the toolbar or menubar is too long (which often, it is). -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! Who the hell cares where Carmen Sandiego is?