From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mode-line customization. Date: 06 May 2004 10:59:15 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1z3c6f738s.fsf@tcdec3.bham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083860921 3670 80.91.224.253 (6 May 2004 16:28:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Chris Green , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 18:28:24 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 1BLljU-0006xw-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 18:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLljT-0003MR-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 18:28:23 +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 1BLldr-0004XB-Uw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 12:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLlKH-00087C-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 12:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLkta-0001rS-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 11:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLktZ-0001r4-II; Thu, 06 May 2004 11:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6714F21180; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:59:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 32DD38C6AE; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:59:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, requis 5, BAYES_00 -4.90) 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:22864 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22864 >> 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 Maybe it's more obvious in XEmacs, but... boy it's ugly!! Basically, I find that changing the background color on a piece of the display should be only acceptable under one of the following conditions: - it is a field-like thingy (as is does for editable stuff in Custom). - it is done over whole lines. - it is *really* *really* important for the user to look at it *right now* (can't think of any example). - it is transient (like the region). - we change the display engine so as to make it less ugly. One way to do that would be to "rounden" ("make round") the corners of the rectangular area. Stefan