From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: colon in the mode-line Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:01:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164827005 17877 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 19:03:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 20:03:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUiF-0005Vm-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:03:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUiF-0006Qy-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:03:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUgX-0004uh-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:01:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUgU-0004sh-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:01:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUgU-0004sW-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpUgT-0001Xw-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-11-159.inter.net.il [80.230.11.159]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GKI39119 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:01:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) 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:63057 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:55:29 +0100 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > > >From man/mule.texi: > > The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled > in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most > often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line. > When multibyte characters are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon > except a single dash. > > Which colon? >>From man/screen.texi: The colon after @var{cs} changes to another string in some cases. Emacs uses newline characters to separate lines in the buffer. Some files use different conventions for separating lines: either carriage-return linefeed (the MS-DOS convention) or just carriage-return (the Macintosh convention). 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.