From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prepend an indicator to the minibuffer prompt to show you canuse completion Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:36:11 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0608141024h2bed4a09m94233546df865dbf@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155843409 6297 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2006 19:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 17 21:36:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GDnfb-0003qR-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:36:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GDnfb-0003uk-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GDnfN-0003tp-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GDnfL-0003tE-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GDnfL-0003t8-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:36:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GDnlt-0004fc-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GDnf6-0003m5-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:36:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:36:16 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:36:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: 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:58478 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > first, i would prefer to use a new indicator in the fringe, when the > fringe is present - seems like this would be a nice use of that real > estate, more suitable than precious minibuffer content space. the new > cue would display with the fringe top-of-buffer signal, when people > use that, but that's generally redundant in the minibuffer, since it > always has a prompt on the first line, and usually contains one or > just a few lines. > > I and, I think, many others, turn fringe off. Hate it; don't need it. > > I think one or two characters of minibuffer space is not too much to > sacrifice for this feature, and it would be optional, in any case. My preference is the same as Ken's, for a fringe indicator. But if this feature is only available by enlarging the minibuffer prompt, I wouldn't use it. How about tweaking the face used to display the prompt, e.g. its foreground color or font weight? -- Kevin