From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-set-mode-line-busy-indicator Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:39:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18370.47294.641890.556694@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18371.9275.720477.806834@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <2vzltos6g1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <18371.49683.356527.589505@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18377.55334.203888.524043@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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204998110 21125 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 17:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 18:42:17 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 1JY33f-0001U6-Re for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY338-0000Oe-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY31e-0006ps-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY31c-0006mZ-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY31b-0006mN-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY31b-0002aB-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:39:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JY31a-0006kf-JP; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:39:58 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:46:40 +0900) 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:91732 Archived-At: I dunno, maybe it's just a personal foible, but emacs the "diff" command used to add this sort of terminator line (haven't noticed recently) sort of terminator string, and I always found it very annoying -- it probably doesn't cause anything to _break_ but it was like an ugly little wart, and I always ended up going to extra effort to delete it when saving the output. I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. If there is no other reason for its removal, we should put it back in. I think the highlighted mode-line status indicators used by e.g. compile-mode (running or finished etc) now are really nice and do a great job of quickly making me aware of what's going on. Those canbe useful, but inserting text at the end is also useful. For instance, M-x compile does both. When it finishes, it inserts text saying "Compilation finished ...". It forces you to do yet another operation (delete the extra output) every time when copying from the diff buffer to and email message, or some other place. You don't need to delete that extra output. It doesn't cause any harm if you copy it into an email message.