From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mode-line customization. Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 05:22:47 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1z3c6f738s.fsf@tcdec3.bham.ac.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083835869 1614 80.91.224.253 (6 May 2004 09:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 11:31:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLfDX-0001gx-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 11:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLfDX-0002ZK-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 11:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLfBg-0002ra-Gm for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 05:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLf7t-0002Nm-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 05:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLf5m-0000aW-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 05:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLf5c-0000Vj-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 05:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BLf5b-0001tQ-Nc; Thu, 06 May 2004 05:22:47 -0400 Original-To: Chris Green In-reply-to: (message from Chris Green on Wed, 05 May 2004 11:04:16 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22838 One of the things I've found I miss the most from XEmacs deals with VC. When you modify a version controlled file in XEmacs, the background of the CVS version becomes highlighted. In Emacs, it goes from CVS-1.21 => CVS:1.21 which isn't obvious until you read the docstring for vc-default-mode-line-string. Let's just put in that feature. Why not?