From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-mode-line
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:54:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqeiec6gc5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buok4o5fyk4.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu\, 05 Aug 2010 13\:55\:39 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> In particular, I think "*" might not be such a good choice, because
> using "*" for the VCS indicator would dilute the impact of the standard
> "buffer modified" indicator. Right now, the buffer-modified indicator
> stands out, as "*" is a fairly noticeable character; the more "*"s with
> _different_ meanings we add to the modeline, the less noticeable it
> becomes (and noticing whether the buffer is modified or not is important
> I think).
Given that the * would be placed close to the CVS/GIT/SVN/etc string,
IMO it would be quite clear that it refers to the VC context.
That seems better than a new context-free symbol...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-05 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-30 11:53 vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-30 12:34 ` vc-mode-line Andy Moreton
2010-08-01 23:04 ` vc-mode-line Stefan Monnier
2010-07-30 15:52 ` vc-mode-line Leo
2010-08-05 4:16 ` vc-mode-line Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-05 4:55 ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-05 5:20 ` vc-mode-line Dan Nicolaescu
2010-08-05 6:39 ` vc-mode-line Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-05 16:20 ` vc-mode-line David Kastrup
2010-08-05 14:57 ` vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-05 18:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-08-06 2:41 ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-06 3:38 ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 4:59 ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 5:13 ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-06 6:52 ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 8:13 ` vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-06 14:23 ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 16:33 ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-06 18:12 ` vc-mode-line Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-06 5:12 ` vc-mode-line Miles Bader
2010-08-10 15:29 ` vc-mode-line David House
2010-08-10 15:43 ` vc-mode-line Óscar Fuentes
2010-08-12 13:08 ` vc-mode-line Ted Zlatanov
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