From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Global bar to display global information Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:42:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hb5he3dy.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313516593 5810 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2011 17:43:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 19:43:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QtNfN-0002pN-6p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:43:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39026 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtNfM-0001Nf-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtNfJ-0001F3-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtNfG-0000oQ-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:39245 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtNfG-0000nc-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from chopper.vpn.verona.se (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id p7GHgt15008665; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:42:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87hb5he3dy.fsf@wanadoo.es> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:18:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 82.115.149.64 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143322 Archived-At: =D3scar Fuentes writes: > "Drew Adams" writes: > >> +1 > > +1 > > [snip] > >> This proposed feature is along the same lines. But this would not >> have as its goal to eliminate mode lines from individual windows. It >> would instead just free up some of that individual-window mode line >> space that might be used for global info (not specific to the given >> buffer/window). > > I'll appreacite such feature. > > Most of the time the minibuffer is an idle blank line at the bottom of > the frame. Using it for displaying some global info sounds quite > convenient. It could display the global info even while asking for > input, overwritting the area used by the info as necessary. > I think it is possible to do such things with Martins new window code. --=20 Joakim Verona