From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Green Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mode-line customization. Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:04:16 -0400 Organization: have you seen my office? 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 1083770571 16311 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 15:22:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 17:22:39 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 1BLOEJ-0008DP-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:22:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLOEJ-0005wu-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:22:39 +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 1BLO2U-0006t9-BH for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 11:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLO1m-0006rk-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 11:09:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLNwY-0005TU-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 11:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLNwX-0005T4-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 11:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLNwW-0002nq-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:04:16 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-151-196-18-191.balt.east.verizon.net ([151.196.18.191]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:04:16 +0200 Original-Received: from cmg by pool-151-196-18-191.balt.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 17:04:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-151-196-18-191.balt.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u05XcNeSqgPxBjWK0lhlJl6c9Ow= 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:22794 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22794 Matt Hodges writes: > This patch might appeal to people migrating from XEmacs, who want to > colourise their mode lines. It might be nice to have these faces > available, even if they're not visibly different from mode-line, by > default. Indeed it does appeal. One of the things I've found I miss the most from XEmacs deals with VC. 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 until you read the docstring for vc-default-mode-line-string. I was disappointed that I couldn't customize to get that behavior back. -- Chris Green Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.