From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mode-line customization. Date: 06 May 2004 16:43:16 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1z3c6f738s.fsf@tcdec3.bham.ac.uk> <20040506140649.GA29608@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083862075 6885 80.91.224.253 (6 May 2004 16:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 18:47:47 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 1BLm2F-0000Iv-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 18:47:47 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLm2F-0003nh-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 18:47:47 +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 1BLlvt-0001Ly-3u for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 12:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLlmq-00074W-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 12:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLk8c-0007Cz-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 10:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLk5w-00071n-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 10:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BLk5l-00015V-PV; Thu, 06 May 2004 10:43:18 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040506140649.GA29608@fencepost> Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:22867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22867 Miles Bader writes: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:59:16PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote: > > > Personally I think CVS*1.21 is a bit too ugly to be worth it. > > > > Ugly, but for that reason also more legible. > > Actually my concern is that visually, it's _less_ legible -- you > really want something that acts a bit like whitespace surrounding > the numbers, and both `-' and `:' serve that purpose -- but `*' is a > much more dominant character. Which is an advantage. It took me several weeks to months to notice and figure out the subtle difference between CVS-1.21 and CVS:1.21. It is something that escapes the casual user completely. CVS*1.21 not only uses the same meme as the buffer modification flag, it is also much more apparent. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum