From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mode-line customization. Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:02:50 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <409BC13A.6080200@yahoo.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083951277 30397 80.91.224.253 (7 May 2004 17:34:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 07 19:34:29 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 1BM9Ez-0001Xm-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 19:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BM9Ey-0004c2-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 19:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BM9Ec-0008M3-0y for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BM9Bl-0006OT-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BM9B6-0005jE-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.33) id 1BM9A5-0004xl-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:29:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BM8l7-0004EF-JV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BM8kH-0007dh-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 19:02:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 170.207.51.80 ([170.207.51.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 19:02:45 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.51.80 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 19:02:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us 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:22911 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22911 David Kastrup wrote: > Miles Bader writes: >>David Kastrup writes: >>>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. >> >>The problem is that it makes it harder to read the version number, > > Not really. ... > I am not saying that CVS*1.18 might be the hottest thing on Earth, > but I can't see it as bad as you seem to. vc.el: (defvar vc-mode-line-unlocked ?-) (defvar vc-mode-line-locked ?*) ~miles/.emacs: (setq vc-mode-line-locked ?:) Or vice versa :-) -- Kevin Rodgers