From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:56:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv63xn2mzb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801211530.m0LFUxpZ004358@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:30:53 -0800")
>> > This can't be right: we have no idea what buffer we're in at this point.
>>
>> > you're right. i have just installed a `with-current-buffer' wrapper.
>>
>> >> + (setq mode-line-process " (background)")
>>
>> > The problem with this is that it's not necessarily clear that we're
>> > changing mode-line-process in the right buffer either, here.
>>
>> > PROC is taken from (current-buffer). is that not reliable?
>>
>> It's reliable in that we know which buffer it is, but that doesn't mean
>> it's the right buffer. Isn't it often a hidden buffer like *vc* rather
>> than the vc-status buffer itself?
> Yep, this seems to work for things like log, diff, annotate, but for
> vc-status it does not, because as you say, the status command does not
> run in vc-status buffer, but in a hidden temporary buffer.
> It seems that a different mechanism is needed for that case.
Yes, I guess the change is fine, and just needs to be supplemented with
some special code for vc-status.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-21 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-28 17:45 Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-28 23:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-29 2:48 ` Alexandru Harsanyi
2007-12-29 11:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 2:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 2:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 4:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-02 11:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 17:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 18:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-03 18:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 9:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 14:34 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 10:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-06 15:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-18 23:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-06 20:00 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-06 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 2:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07 3:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 3:36 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 12:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 11:30 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 12:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-07 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-08 19:06 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-08 19:34 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-07 3:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07 3:03 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-07 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 21:15 ` PCL-CVS buffers (was: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored) Reiner Steib
2008-01-08 2:33 ` PCL-CVS buffers Stefan Monnier
2008-01-18 23:46 ` Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19 0:10 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-19 1:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19 6:00 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-19 17:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-19 21:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-20 17:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-20 20:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-20 17:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-20 19:08 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-20 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-20 19:45 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-22 1:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-19 20:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-20 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-20 20:30 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-21 15:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-21 15:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-21 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-01-21 15:34 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-06 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 11:46 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 22:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 23:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 23:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-03 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-03 17:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-05 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 23:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-02 23:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
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