From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: colon in the mode-line
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:23:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wnjagxm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0611291505w2bd6fd04t921f9e313781f6fa@mail.gmail.com> (lekktu@gmail.com)
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:05:35 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > If the buffer's file uses
> > carriage-return linefeed, the colon changes to either a backslash
> > (@samp{\}) or @samp{(DOS)}, depending on the operating system. If the
> > file uses just carriage-return, the colon indicator changes to either
> > a forward slash (@samp{/}) or @samp{(Mac)}. On some systems, Emacs
> > displays @samp{(Unix)} instead of the colon for files that use newline
> > as the line separator.
>
> That's entirely my point: the description of multibyte character
> support confusingly refers to a colon that some users won't ever see.
> It would be better to simply refer to the first (or leftmost,
> whatever) chars of the mode line, instead of them being "before the
> colon".
I fixed this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-29 16:55 colon in the mode-line Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-29 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-29 23:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-11-30 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-01 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-12-01 15:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
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