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: Suggestions for mode-line-format changes Date: 26 Aug 2002 16:12:41 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: 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 1030346148 29713 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2002 07:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Shutko , Bill White , 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 17jE6F-0007j8-00 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:15:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17jEay-0003fk-00 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:47:32 +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 17jE7X-0003Y7-00; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:17:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jE5u-0003B3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17jE5s-000396-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:15:25 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17jE5r-00038o-00; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g7Q7F7410396; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:15:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g7Q7CkI12770; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:15:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g7Q7CiG00789; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:12:44 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g7Q7Chs16424; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:12:43 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 6404836F2; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:12:42 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 14 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:6903 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6903 Eli Zaretskii writes: > How about making the mode line taller when the info it should display > exceeds some threshold? (Yes, on a tty that would mean the mode line > will use two screen lines.) Given that the overflow is usually much less that a line's worth of data, that would be a pretty big cost, unless the threshold were so large that it would rarely be crossed (and imagine if the mode-lines for all of your windows were two line; I think most people would prefer truncate...) -Miles -- I have seen the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo