From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Put hide-ifdef on menu-bar? Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:34:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18303.12050.877970.348893@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200801050914.m059E68s012506@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <477F5695.5000607@gmx.at> <200801060108.m0618fq3014424@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <18305.17988.586928.131214@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199669728 13262 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 01:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: martin rudalics , Nick Roberts , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 02:35:49 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 1JBgu4-0000B7-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:35:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBgte-0000OL-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:35:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBgsk-0008LV-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:34:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBgsg-0008Js-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:34:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBgsg-0008Jn-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBgsf-0005PQ-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:34:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAFcQgUfO+K+E/2dsb2JhbACmSg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,251,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12348694" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 06 Jan 2008 20:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.175.132]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id NCP00706; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7E0237F7C; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:34:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:45:25 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:86413 Archived-At: Nick> Eclipse places many different markers in the fringe: compilation Nick> error, bookmarks, TODO markers, etc. We could do the same in Nick> Emacs but that reminds me that it's currently not possible to Nick> add a tooltip to such markers. Perhaps this should be put in Nick> TODO. > Also, Eclipse allows fringe elements which do not scroll with the > window contents. This turns out to be pretty handy. > For instance you could show the user the visible area of the current > buffer (relative to the size of the whole buffer) as a different > background color. In Eclipse you can see little blocks in the > right-hand fringe which represent errors, problems, etc, and you can > click them to jump to the corresponding point. > I don't think there is a way to do this in Emacs yet, either. Those things should be put in the scrollbar, don't you think? Stefan